aloof

• adj. 冷たい；遠い；無関心
• adv.から離れる；避ける

航海用語から。接頭辞a-はad-と同じ。 loof、風見鶏。岩礁を避けるために船首を風上に合わせること、また後に迷走、距離を置くことを指す。

aloof

aloof: [16] Aloof was originally a nautical term, a command to steer to windward. Its second syllable is a variant of luff ‘sail closer to the wind’ [13]. This was borrowed from Old French lof, ‘windward side of a ship’, which may itself have been, like so many maritime expressions, of Dutch origin. The modern figurative meaning ‘reserved, uninvolved’ developed via an intermediate physical sense ‘away, at a distance’.
=> luff

aloof (adj.)

1530s, from a- (1) + Middle English loof "weather gage," also "windward direction," probably from Dutch loef (Middle Dutch lof) "the weather side of a ship." Originally a nautical order to keep the ship's head to the wind, thus to stay clear of a lee-shore or some other quarter; hence the figurative sense of "at a distance, apart" (1580s). Related: Aloofly; aloofness.

1. Barry had his nose put out of joint by Lucy 's aloof sophistication.

ルーシーの冷淡さと世故はバリーを非常に不快にさせた。

2.I will hold myself aloof from wrong and corruption.

私は自分を間違いや腐敗から遠ざける。

3.He seemed aloof and detached.

彼は冷たく群を離れているように見える。

4.She stood tall and aloof .

彼女は背が高くて冷たい。

5.He has remained largely aloof from the hurly-burly of parliamentary politics.

彼は基本的に騒々しい議会政治に無関心だった。