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词汇 example_english_paragon-of-virtue
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paragon of virtue

collocation in English

meanings of paragonand virtue


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paragon
noun[C]
uk /ˈpær.ə.ɡən/ us /ˈper.ə.ɡɑːn/
a person or thing that is perfect or has an extremely large amount of a particular ...
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virtue
noun
uk /ˈvɜː.tʃuː/ us /ˈvɝː.tʃuː/
a good moral quality in a person, or the general quality of being ...
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Examples of paragon of virtue


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Perhaps events have moved on since then and most or all small and medium firms are paragons of virtue in that regard.
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You cannot have it both ways; they cannot be paragons of virtue and, at the same time, pirates.
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We do not put ourselves forward as paragons of virtue.
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But no one should imagine that elected politicians are paragons of virtue.
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Nor did they succeed in making the population of this country paragons of virtue.
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He claimed that every man who works for a direct labour organisation is a paragonofvirtue.
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I do not expect any landlord to be a paragonofvirtue.
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One would think that an authority employing so many people would be a paragonofvirtue when it came to efficiency.
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That borough is very often held up alongside others as a paragonofvirtue in the management of its local affairs.
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I do not stand here as any paragonofvirtue or religion.
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But they are not a paragonofvirtue.
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I recently had a classic example of a mail order firm—a paragonofvirtue!
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I have never yet met that paragonofvirtue who can spend other people's money more efficiently than he can spend his own.
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He is a paragonofvirtue.
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The qualities of local government hardly befit it to be the paragonofvirtue to which we should hand over the whole of the local health administration.
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He also presented the tyrannical manager as a paragonofvirtue.
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The medieval church upheld him as a paragonofvirtue while secular rulers invoked him as a prototype, a point of reference, and the symbol of imperial legitimacy and identity.
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However, they were not all paragons of virtue always acting in good faith for the 'common good'.
Surely it is time we gave up regarding ourselves as the only paragons of virtue in an otherwise wicked world.
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They will have to be the paragons of virtue that my noble friend mentioned.
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