| 词汇 | example_english_honour |
| 释义 | Examples of honourThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Historians have also stressed its role in a culture of honour and of honour conflicts. There was no guarantee that virtue would bring honour : it would have to be its own reward. Instead, the only conceivable solution to duelling was a complete dismissal of the underlying theory of honour and valour. Underlying the misleading notion of honour was an equally skewed view of valour. Possibly he objected to honouring the unconsecrated bread and wine with excessive ceremony. Such arrangements, enacted without the customary familial negotiations, usurped the privileges of parents and their ability to protect their family lineage, stability, and honour. Inevitably individuals who believed their claims for honours were as strong as those recently ennobled came forward to press their own pretensions. That frustration expressed itself in harsh censure of a metropolis where success apparently had to be won at the price of personal honour. In practice, many utility companies and government agencies still refuse to honour the preferential policy. The honour affirmed had changed its meaning, and had a much more restricted constituency. Its notions of honour and valour were deceptive, as was its concept of civility. Such as you are, you will soon find ten wealthy noblemen who will vie for the honour of making up for the absence of salary. While many countries have provisions in their family law legislation requiring courts to listen to the voices of children, few have actually honoured them. Honour might have been a common idiom among men, but the different immigrant communities perhaps attatched to it quite different connotations and importance. The ways in which they sustained individual honour remind us of the connections between kin, neighbours, and old associates that haunted civil war. According to his definition, a man lost his natural honour as soon as someone impugned it. It was meticulous care by both sides to preserve the forms and honour of parole, in transactions of mutual trust, that made the system work. Nowhere are they so common as not to be held in high honour. He was grateful for the honour, but would like 'to make the following observations for the record'. He says he was surrounded by people who honoured him, and who came to his house to seek information and advice on scholarly matters. To cudgel or cane an officer was to insult both his honour and his social status. They likewise acquired distinctively civic overtones as cathedral clerics employed them in honour of local patron saints. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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