Propriety
[prə'praɪətɪ] or [prə'praɪəti]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
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
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Fitness, appropriateness, justness, correctness, expediency, decorum,[SeeEXPEDIENCY_and_DECORUM]
本校對
解釋/意思:
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.
埃利奥特錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He received the communication with perfect calmness, and acquiesced in its propriety. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Well, then Uncle and Aunt were there to play propriety. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- No other house can receive her with propriety but yours. 威爾基·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. 威爾基·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·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- As for me, my sense of propriety was completely bewildered. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- In short, Topsy soon made the household understand the propriety of letting her alone; and she was let alone, accordingly. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Regardless of decorum, you are prepared to fly in the face of propriety. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I only doubt--' 'The propriety of my leaving it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy? 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- 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. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was somehow understood, as a secret article in the state proprieties of Podsnappery that nothing must be said about the day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mr. and Mrs. Elton appeared; and all the smiles and the proprieties passed. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
編輯:玛杰里