decency

英式音标：[ˈdi:snsi]播放读音

美式音标：[ˈdisənsi]播放读音

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概况：

n. 正派；体面；庄重；合乎礼仪；礼貌

词义：

n.

正派；正直；体面；社会上高尚文雅行为的标准

英英释义

decency[ 'di:sənsi ]

n.

the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality

the quality of being polite and respectable

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

Such conduct outrages our normal sense of decency.
这种行为伤害了我们正常的得体感。

His essential decency makes it impossible to dislike him.
他十分正派，使人不能不喜欢他。

You should have the decency to apologize for what you did.
你应该讲点礼貌，为你所做的事道歉。

All people with a sense of decency will look down upon such conduct as that.
注重尊严的人都会轻视那种行为。

权威例句

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同义词：respectability,civility

同根词：decently,decent

英语词源：

decency (n.)

1560s, "appropriateness," from Latin decentia "comeliness, decency," from decentem "becoming, fitting" (see decent). Meaning "modesty" (i.e. "appropriateness to standards of society") is from 1630s.

造句：

1. Have the decency to do sth.

为了体面[礼貌]而做某事；总算还顾到体面而做某事

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

2. outstep decency

越出礼貌以外

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

3. decency standard

雅俗标准

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

4. He is a man of decency.

他为人正派。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

5. public decency

风俗

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

6. transgress the bounds of decency

逾矩.

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

7. an offense against decency =a breach of decency

无礼,没规矩,不当的行为

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

8. offend against good taste and decency

庸俗不雅

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

9. common decency; simple courtesy.

普通礼仪；普通礼貌。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

10. "standard of morality, decency and propriety"

道德礼教标准

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]