| 词汇 | example_english_honourable |
| 释义 | Examples of honourableThese 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. The integrity of his ' faith ' was central to a soldier's, as to a gentleman's, sense of himself as honourable. It is of course honourable for a researcher to keep personal opinions at bay, but that is simply not completely possible. If he'd said 'to me and my honourable friends', he might have got away with it. To have too many animals from herds outside the lineage is, however, not an honourable situation regardless of the herd's size. The more honourable course also has implicit in it the concept of masculinity upheld by the male populace. However, such an altruistic and honourable motive alone could hardly stand the scrutiny of the various foreign audiences. As meticulously courteous as he was logical, he suffered in a world where not all were as honourable in those respects as he was. Schaeffer was not the last to accept this point, despite having honourable conscientious problems about it. But they required that the transfer of power be unhurried, orderly, and honourable. What may be considered less honourable and what may be considered more honourable. Moreover, such a recognition may well suggest something more 'honourable'. Histories of conservation in the built environment have a long and honourable tradition, almost as long as the history of conservation itself. While courage was intrinsically honourable, admirable, and exemplary, it should also be functional. Older people are almost ancestors : they are about to join the honourable ranks of the matrilineal forbears to whom people pray and pour libations. Giving and enjoying, then, are the most honourable ways of disposing of one's wealth. The civilities and courtesies that were part of honourable conduct between enemies belonged primarily to the other-regarding side of honour. Political campaigning, and campaigning for peace in particular, is a perfectly honourable activity. Seeking to be honoured, he thought that people could generally be relied upon to do what is honourable. Around 1500 a discursive formation developed which placed the clandestine workers in a sharp contrast to the honest and honourable master artisans. Nor did they make it into the ranks of honourable (civilian) resisters. In the seventeenth century cash was both hard to come by and regarded as less honourable than payment in kind. 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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