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Stand-offishness is the noun: the itself, the quality of keeping people at a distance. Not the person, and not the way they act — the thing they have. "I was surprised by his stand-offishness." "Her stand-offishness melted after the second cup of tea." This is what nouns like this are for. Once the quality has a name, you can do things to it in a sentence: notice it, explain it, forgive it, watch it disappear. That is why you often find this word in the middle of a kind sentence — someone is trying to account for behaviour that hurt a little. "His stand-offishness was really just shyness." It is uncountable: stand-offishness, some stand-offishness, a certain stand-offishness — but never "a stand-offishness" on its own and never plural. It is also, honestly, a rare and rather heavy word; five is a lot. In speech most people say "he was so cold with me" instead. Keep it for writing, where a long word has room to sit. Both spellings work: stand-offishness and standoffishness.
冷淡、疏離(那種態度本身)。是 stand-offish 的名詞形,指「不想跟人親近的那種態度」。不可數,而且是書面語,講話時多半直接說 he was cold。
組成stand-offish + -ness. The -ness ending turns an adjective into the name of the quality — kind becomes kindness, dark becomes darkness, stand-offish becomes stand-offishness. Underneath it all sits the phrasal verb "stand off", to keep away.
同家族的字
- stand-offishthe adjective it is made from
- stand-offishlythe adverb from the same adjective
- stand offthe phrasal verb the whole family grew out of
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。