Virtue
['vɜːtjuː;-tʃuː] or ['vɝtʃʊ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.
(noun.) a particular moral excellence.
(noun.) morality with respect to sexual relations.
黛朵錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
(n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
(n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
(n.) Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
(n.) Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
(n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
(n.) Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.
(n.) One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
整理:马库斯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Force, efficacy, power, strength, potency.[2]. Goodness (that comes from self discipline), uprightness, probity, integrity, rectitude, morality, worth, moral excellence.
贾尼斯編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Power, capacity, strength, force, efficacy, excellence, value, morality,goodness, uprightness, purity, chastity, salubrity
ANT:Weakness, incapacity, inability, inefficacy, badness, corruption, vice,immorality, impurity, unchastity, virulence, malignancy
校對:沃尔多
解釋/意思:
n. excellence: worth: moral excellence: the practice of duty: a moral excellence: sexual purity esp. female chastity: purity: (B.) strength: force: inherent power efficacy: one of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.—adj. Vir′tual having virtue or efficacy: having the efficacy without the material part: in effect though not in fact: (mech.) possible and infinitesimal.—adv. Vir′tually.—adjs. Vir′tueless wanting virtue: without efficacy; Vir′tue-proof (Milt.) impregnable in virtue; Vir′tuous having virtue or moral goodness: blameless: righteous: practising duty: being according to the moral law: chaste (of a woman).—adv. Vir′tuously.—n. Vir′tuousness.—By In virtue of through the power force or efficacy of; Make a virtue of necessity to do as if from inclination or sense of duty something one must needs do; Seven principal Virtues faith hope charity justice prudence temperance and fortitude—the first three the theological the last four the moral virtues; The cardinal virtues (see Cardinal).
科迪莉亚整理
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n.pl. Certain abstentions.
錄入:库尔特
娱乐性解釋/意思:
A quality oftentimes associated with intelligence, but rarely with beauty.
埃斯特尔校對
例句/造句/用法:
- And still the unjust must appear just; that is 'the homage which vice pays to virtue. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I suppose the virtue to belong to my companion, not to myself; and observe what follows from this alteration. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Virtue is free, and as a man honours or dishonours her he will have more or less of her; the responsibility is with the chooser--God is justified. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- You looked surprised to-day when you heard him tell me that I had made a virtue of necessity in marrying him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Happy people, who enjoy so many living examples of ancient virtue, and have masters ready to instruct them in the wisdom of all former ages! 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- This is most complimentary to the virtue of Prince Bladud's tears, and strongly corroborative of the veracity of this legend. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- But Horsfall has this virtue, added the surgeon--drunk or sober, she always remembers to obey _me_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She did not at all resemble either a paragon or a prude; and yet I am the only one of all our family who am not afraid of her wit or her virtue. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- They are better authorities than I am, for they know what virtue is, and I don't. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- 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.
- But Fate intervened enviously and prevented her from receiving the reward due to such immaculate love and virtue. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But this, in my opinion, is not a sufficient reason for excluding them from the catalogue of virtues. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This is not the case with the natural virtues. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Two virtues remain; temperance and justice. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Whatever happened, he knew, she would always be loyal, gallant and unresentful; and that pledged him to the practice of the same virtues. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- To call them virtues in their isolation is like taking the skeleton for the living body. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Perhaps it will appear afterwards, that our sense of some virtues is artificial, and that of others natural. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- With all these virtues, one penny a square! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- An eloquent catalogue appeared in a weekly print, describing his virtues, his magnificence, his talents, and his good actions. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The man never trod ground whose virtues and services would have sustained him in that place that day, against such denunciation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- All the moral and Christian virtues bound in black Morocco, complete! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And is not a similar method to be pursued about the virtues, which are also four in number? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
克莱儿整理