Morality
[məˈræləti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.
(n.) The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
(n.) The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.
(n.) The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.
(n.) A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.
(n.) Intent; meaning; moral.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Morals, ethics, moral philosophy.[2]. Virtue, goodness.
奥德丽整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Now sexual morality is pretty clearly defined for the Commission. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I suppose French morality is not of that straight-laced description which is shocked at trifles. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We do not look in great cities for our best morality. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Intelligent insight into present forms of associated life is necessary for a character whose morality is more than colorless innocence. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Here, therefore, we feign a new act of the mind, which we call the willing an obligation; and on this we suppose the morality to depend. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Nietzsche repudiates the usual conception of morality, which he calls slave-morality, in favor of a morality of masters. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Casuistry, and an ascetic morality, made up, in most cases, the greater part of the moral philosophy of the schools. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I have perused many of their books, especially those in history and morality. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Oliver was rendered the more anxious to be actively employed, by what he had seen of the stern morality of the old gentleman's character. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Ordinary morality, and hence that of the schoolroom, is likely to be an inconsistent compromise of both views. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He professes morality. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- That's a nice sort of morality. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It's a pity, wife, that you have burdened them with a morality above their condition and prospects. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- This is the second part of our argument; and if it can be made evident, we may conclude, that morality is not an object of reason. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I protest, in the interests of morality, against blame being gratuitously and wantonly attached to the proceedings of the Count. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- His speeches began to turn on platitudes--on the vague idealism and indisputable moralities of the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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