decency是什么意思？

decency

英[ˈdi:snsi] 美[ˈdisənsi]

• n. 正派，正直，体面，社会上高尚文雅行为的标准；

例句

• Governments are often drawn into disputes about matters of public taste and decency. 政府经常被拉入到有关公众品位和社会风化问题的争论中。
• A journalist should always live up to the ideals of truth, decency, and justice. 记者必须始终践行真实、正直、正义的理想。
• Your behaviour is an affront to public decency. 你的行为有伤风化。
• It was an affront to common decency 这是对社会礼仪的公然冒犯。
• We can only try to hold fast to the age-old values of honesty, decency and concern for others. 我们只能努力坚守那些古老的价值观：诚实、正派、关心他人。
• ...the world of inter-war decency as personified by Stanley Baldwin... 在斯坦利·鲍德温身上所体现的两次大战间体面正派的人生
• She railed against hypocrisy, pretentiousness and self - regard, while lauding modesty, fidelity, decency, and achievement. 她不喜欢虚伪,矫饰和自大, 而崇尚谦逊, 忠诚, 正派和成就.
• Vice breaks in at the breaches of decency. 当廉耻丧失的时候,罪恶就会冲进来.
• His sense of decency and fair play made him refuse the offer. 他的正直感和公平竞争意识使他拒绝了这一提议.
• Her behaviour showed a total lack of common decency . 她的举止显示她连起码的礼节都不懂。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  合宜;得体;正派;合乎礼仪
  Decency is the quality of following accepted moral standards.
  例句
  Unfortunately, on Friday night he showed neither decency nor dignity... 不幸的是，周五晚上他表现得既不得体，也不庄重。 His sense of decency forced him to resign. 他顾及颜面，不得不辞了职。
• PHRASE
  （出于礼貌）应该做（但没做）…
  If you say that someone did not have the decency to do something, you are criticizing them because there was a particular action which they did not do but which you believe they ought to have done.
  例句
  Nobody had the decency to inform me of what was planned. 竟然没有一个人最起码地通知我一声计划了些什么。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  正派,正直,端庄;体面
  His sense of decency and fair play made him refuse the offer. 他的正直感和公平竞争意识使他拒绝了这一提议。 A journalist should always live up to the ideals of truth, decency, and justice. 记者必须始终践行真实、正直、正义的理想。
  社会上高尚文雅行为的标准,礼仪
  Governments are often drawn into disputes about matters of public taste and decency. 政府经常被拉入到有关公众品位和社会风化问题的争论中。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality
  2. the quality of being polite and respectable