She simply, newly, had the imperial standoffishness that I realized only then I had always associated with the dead.

她的装扮既简朴又新颖，就在这时我才意识到我总是将她那高贵的冷静与死人联系在一起。

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A cat, for instance, is much more dexterous with its paws than a dog. This dexterity fascinates cat lovers, who also cite the cat's legendary standoffishness as proof of its mental superiority.

比如猫对其手掌的控制灵活度要比狗强很多，所以很多猫的爱好者会认为这是猫比狗聪明的体现。

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But the Pentagon's standoffishness towards the Chinese military has not been helping.

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German standoffishness toward the EU is now based in law: a 2009 ruling by Germany's Constitutional Court allowed it to ratify the Lisbon treaty but limited further transfers of power to Brussels.

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Something else we noted in one of the towns that had been freed from Iraqi control was that the local people, who are Kurds, greeted the Kurdish fighters as well as the American soldiers with no standoffishness at all.

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