Propriety
[prə'praɪətɪ] or [prə'praɪəti]
解释:
(n.) Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.
(n.) That which is proper or peculiar; an inherent property or quality; peculiarity.
(n.) The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc.
整理:肯尼思
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Fitness (to a proper standard or rule), appropriateness, suitableness, seemliness, justness, correctness, accuracy, consonance, adaptation, reasonableness.[2]. Decorum, decency, good behavior, proper formality.
杰西整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Fitness, appropriateness, justness, correctness, expediency, decorum,[SeeEXPEDIENCY_and_DECORUM]
本校对
解释:
n. a person's right of possession: state of being proper or right: agreement with established principles or customs: fitness: accuracy: property: (obs.) individuality.—The proprieties conventional customs of society.
埃利奥特录入
例句:
- Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He received the communication with perfect calmness, and acquiesced in its propriety. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Before the winter was far advanced, it is actually on record that Emmy took a night and received company with great propriety and modesty. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Well, then Uncle and Aunt were there to play propriety. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- She had as firm a belief in the sweetness and propriety of his manners as she could possibly have had if he had been Lord Chamberlain. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- On the 1st of November I suggested to Sherman, and also asked his views thereon, the propriety of destroying Hood before he started on his campaign. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- No other house can receive her with propriety but yours. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- My strict sense of propriety restores it (by the hands of my wife) to its place on the writer's table. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I'm going, so you needn't try to preach propriety, for you can't do it, Jo. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- As for me, my sense of propriety was completely bewildered. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- In short, Topsy soon made the household understand the propriety of letting her alone; and she was let alone, accordingly. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Regardless of decorum, you are prepared to fly in the face of propriety. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Even admitting that the size and weight of his low-tension conductors necessitated putting them underground, this argues nothing against the propriety and sanity of his methods. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I only doubt--' 'The propriety of my leaving it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- With a few lessons, she had learned to do the proprieties of Miss Ophelia's chamber in a way with which even that particular lady could find no fault. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was somehow understood, as a secret article in the state proprieties of Podsnappery that nothing must be said about the day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Mr. and Mrs. Elton appeared; and all the smiles and the proprieties passed. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
编辑:玛杰里