Decency
['diːs(ə)nsɪ] or ['disnsi]
解释:
(noun.) the quality of being polite and respectable.
(noun.) the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality.
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解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
(n.) That which is proper or becoming.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Propriety, decorum, proper formality.[2]. Modesty, delicacy, purity.
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同义词及反义词：
SYN:Modesty, propriety,[See DECORUM]
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例句:
- I must indeed, I said; for when just now I repeated the offer of serving him for a deacon, he expressed himself shocked at my want of decency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It is really too great a violation of decency, honour, and interest, for him to be guilty of. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- What shall I do wi' a woman's clothes in MY bedroom, and not lose my decency! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Brummell talked to Julia while he looked at me; and as soon as he could manage it with decency, he contrived to place himself by my side. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- That British love of decency will work miracles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- No regard will be paid to truth, morals, or decency, in the doctrines inculcated. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- And with good right may they go before us--forget not, said the Prior Aymer, the superior decency and decorum of their manners. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Ah-- Mrs. Archer murmured, in a tone that implied: She had that decency. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- But after all, one can have a little human decency. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- But, however, if you have no sense of decency, I have. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Wars that were unmeaning catastrophes swept down upon any little gleam of prosperity or decency to which this or that community clambered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The remarks I made were certainly, as I conceive, what every female with the least decency or delicacy must have made, _en pareil cas. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- They preserve decency and civility in the highest degrees, but are altogether ignorant of ceremony. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Why, it's a pity you can't be bullied into some sense and decency. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- One can preserve the decencies, even to one's enemies: for one's own sake. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The apologists of business also justified a rupture with human decencies. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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