Honest
['ɒnɪst] or ['ɑnɪst]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) gained or earned without cheating or stealing; 'an honest wage'; 'an fair penny' .
(adj.) not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; 'honest lawyers'; 'honest reporting' .
(adj.) marked by truth; 'gave honest answers'; 'honest reporting' .
(adj.) without pretensions; 'worked at an honest trade'; 'good honest food' .
(adj.) without dissimulation; frank; 'my honest opinion' .
杰拉尔丁校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
(a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
(a.) Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
(a.) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
(a.) To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.
贝丝編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Honorable, reputable, creditable, right, proper, equitable.[2]. Upright, virtuous, conscientious, just, true, fair, faithful, trusty, trustworthy, as good as one's word.[3]. Sincere, candid, frank.
編輯:耶鲁
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Honorable, upright, virtuous, proper, right, sincere, conscientious
ANT:Dishonest, dishonorable, vicious, improper, wrong, insincere
校對:路易丝
解釋/意思:
adj. full of honour: just: the opposite of thievish free from fraud: frank fair-seeming openly shown: chaste: (B.) honourable.—adv. Hon′estly.—n. Hon′esty the state of being honest: integrity: candour: a small flowering plant so called from its transparent seed-pouch: (B.) becoming deportment: (Shak.) chastity.—Make an honest woman of to marry where the woman has been dishonoured first.
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例句/造句/用法:
- An honest declaration! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Her honest ostentatious nature made the sharing of a merited dishonor as bitter as it could be to any mortal. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I am not ashamed to tell you the honest truth. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- A slight snore was the only reply: the honest stockbroker was asleep, and so the rest of Joseph's story was lost for that day. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The honest face, so full of grief, and with such an imploring expression of affection and sympathy, struck his master. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- You don't know what she endured, sir, said honest Dobbin with a tremor in his voice, and I hope and trust you will be reconciled to her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We need only note two of their names, Carnot, who was an honest republican, and Barras, who was conspicuously a rogue. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But further precaution was still due to the sweat of this honest fellow's brow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The honest Irish maid-servant, delighted with the change, asked leave to kiss the face that had grown all of a sudden so rosy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Her family--her beggarly family--turned their backs on her for marrying an honest man, who had made his own place and won his own fortune. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- His honest eyes fire up, and sparkle, as if their depths were stirred by something bright. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The economic conflicts are at once raised to a plane of research, experiment and honest deliberation. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If anyone says that I attempted to stop your marriage by any but honest means, that person, too, does not speak the truth. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I suppose you have looked all round and tried all honest means? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The T'other Governor he's always joked his jokes agin me, owing, as I believe, to my being a honest man as gets my living by the sweat of my brow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- To the party worker the petty and the honest issue are equally disturbing. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Lord Steyne read it, everybody but honest Rawdon, to whom it was not necessary to tell everything that passed in the little house in May Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Not that Emmy, being made aware of the honest Major's passion, rebuffed him in any way, or felt displeased with him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Sir, I _feel_ honest enough, said Graham; and a genuine English blush covered his face with its warm witness of sincerity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Our treasure was warranted sober and honest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I think, there is hardly anything honest that his family would object to more, said Mrs. Garth, decidedly. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Love is the dismallest thing where the lover is quite honest. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I'm a settin' on Mr. and Mrs. Raggles's sofy, which they bought with honest money, and very dear it cost 'em, too. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In honest words, her money was necessary to me, and in a situation like mine, any thing was to be done to prevent a rupture. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Are there no honest ones? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I know not whether I am a true philanthropist; yet I am willing to aid you to the utmost of my power in a purpose so honest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It is a mistake in being too honest when dealing with a scoundrel. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- This meal over, she resumed honest Rawdon's calculations of the night previous, and surveyed her position. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Quite true,' added Mr Boffin; 'and I tested Venus by making him a pretended proposal or two; and I found him on the whole a very honest man, Wegg. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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