Decorum
[dɪ'kɔːrəm] or [dɪ'kɔrəm]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
安吉拉校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Decency, propriety, seemliness, appropriate behavior.
錄入:伦纳德
例句/造句/用法:
- The decorum or indecorum of a quality, with regard to the age, or character, or station, contributes also to its praise or blame. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- In all points of decorum _your_ conduct must be law to the rest of the party. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Regardless of decorum, you are prepared to fly in the face of propriety. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- With the old, he had another part to play, which, when needful, he could sustain with great decorum. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Sir Pitt that pattern of decorum, Sir Pitt who had led off at missionary meetings--he never for one moment thought of not going too. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And with good right may they go before us--forget not, said the Prior Aymer, the superior decency and decorum of their manners. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It is the only means of maintaining that distance which the reserve of English manners and the decorum of English families exact. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Such was our daily life on board the ship--solemnity, decorum, dinner, dominoes, devotions, slander. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- His sense of decorum is strict. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Mr. Hawley's mode of speech, even when public decorum repressed his awful language, was formidable in its curtness and self-possession. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- This decorum depends, in a great measure, upon experience. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Pray let us proceed with more decorum. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Sir, said Mr. Shelby, if you wish to communicate with me, you must observe something of the decorum of a gentleman. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
編輯:利拉