Prudence
['pruːd(ə)ns] or ['prʊdns]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.
格伦錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Discretion (accompanied with forecast), caution, carefulness, circumspection, considerateness, common sense, judiciousness, judgment, wisdom (applied to the ordinary affairs of life), sense, tact, GUMPTION, ballast.
奥古斯汀錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A quality of mind that restrains the wise boarder from trying to find out how his landlady makes her hash.
杰米整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Few people of common prudence will do THAT; and whatever she saves, she will be able to dispose of. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Prudence was never a cardinal virtue of the Kentucky boy. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Prudence recommended henceforward a swift clearance of my person from the place, the moment that guilty old book was brought out. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Caution, thought, restraint, prudence, are all swept away by the torrent. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I believe I have been wrong in saying so much, but I hardly know what to do, and on your prudence I have the strongest dependence. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Miss Ophelia in her own heart said, I hope she isn't, but had prudence enough to keep it down. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Madam, it is a question of common sense and common prudence, not of sympathy and sentiment, and so on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The prudence of this line of action, indeed, was obvious; but, unfortunately, there was one very strong objection to its being adopted. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- His best, if not his only reason, for adhering to the party of Brian de Bois-Guilbert, Athelstane had the prudence to keep to himself. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- For six pounds a year you may have the use of one hundred pounds, provided you are a man of known prudence and honesty. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I answered, that his excellency's prudence, quality, and fortune, had exempted him from those defects, which folly and beggary had produced in others. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- These were questions of prudence; there was no immediate necessity for an earnest caution. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- This sociability seemed a necessary part of professional prudence, and the entertainment must be suitable. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Not with care and prudence and good help, said my guardian. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
整理:丽纳