aloof /əˈluf/
  (a.)疏遠的,冷淡的(ad.)遠離,離開
  A·loof n. Zool. Same as Alewife.
  A·loof, adv.
  1. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
     Our palace stood aloof from streets.   --Dryden.
  2. Without sympathy; unfavorably.
     To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties.   --I. Taylor.
  A·loof prep. Away from; clear from. [Obs.]
     Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands.   --Milton.
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  aloof
       adj : remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a
             distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" [syn: distant,
              upstage]
       adv : in an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional
             classes had held aloof for the school had accepted
             their sons readily enough"