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  • The best place to answer these kinds of language-interpretation questions is on the forums of WordReference.com (http://www.wordreference.com). As for your current question, the phrase itself is poorly worded: "I have to treat you with a certain distance" isn't good language usage, it's an unusual use of an idiom "to keep your distance". Basically it means "I have to isolate myself from you, I don't trust you or for some other reason cannot allow a lot of contact with you".

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