Dutiful
['djuːtɪfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['dʊtɪfəl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; 'a dutiful child'; 'a dutiful citizen'; 'Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife'; .
整理:马库斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.
(a.) Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.
整理:拉尔夫
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Obedient, submissive, duteous.[2]. Reverential, respectful, deferential.
校對:米利森特
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Obedient, submissive, respectful, docile, deferential, duteous
ANT:Disobedient, intractable, rebellious, undutiful
校對:马里恩
例句/造句/用法:
- But, as I know your loving and dutiful nature from--hum--from experience, I am quite satisfied that it is necessary to say no more. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I had no doubt of your being contented and happy with me, being so dutiful and so devoted; but I saw with whom you would be happier. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- You're a dutiful and affectionate little boy, you are, ain't you,' said Mr. Weller, 'to come a-bonnetin' your father in his old age? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- But it is better for me to stay there; much better, much more dutiful, much happier. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I don't think I ever felt what a good dutiful daughter I had, so strongly as I felt it at that moment. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He is sorely taken aback, too, by the dutiful behaviour of his nephew and has a woeful consciousness upon him of being a scapegrace. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Yes, but she wouldn't have been as dutiful, and it would not have come off as easily,' returned the whelp, 'if it hadn't been for me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Not a bad idea; the head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Neither was I surprised when, on the very next day, Uriah, like a dutiful son, brought his worthy mother to take possession. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- You've got a dutiful mother, you have, my son. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I charge your dutiful affection with the supply of these requirements, and I charge myself with all the rest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- That's not dutiful, Mr Arthur. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Your unhappy and dutiful servant, Dec. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Sam walked with them to the lodge gate, and took a dutiful leave. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Young Jerry relieved his father with dutiful interest, and reported No job in his absence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Oh, Amelia, may God send you a more dutiful child than I have had! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But yesterday morning you had made up your mind, in a great hurry, to stay here, and to accompany your mother, like a dutiful son, to the sea-side. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Very dutiful in your interesting sister,' said Mr. James Harthouse. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The dutiful son laughed his mother's correspondence to scorn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I'll do my best to gratify you, Sir, was Laurie's unusually dutiful reply, as he carefully unpinned the posy Jo had put in his buttonhole. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She is of a most affectionate temper, and perfectly dutiful and obliging to her parents and to all. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But you knew what a dutiful creature you had to deal with. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Be dutiful and affectionate towards me, and I ask no other return. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The tomb of Joseph, the dutiful son, the affectionate, forgiving brother, the virtuous man, the wise Prince and ruler. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
校對:马里恩