词汇 | honesty |
释义 | honesty noun[ U ] uk /ˈɒn.ə.sti/ us /ˈɑː.nə.sti/ honestynoun[U] (QUALITY)B2 the quality of being honest: 诚实 I appreciate your honesty.我很欣赏你的诚实。 in all honestyI must tell you in all honesty (= truthfully and hiding nothing) that there is little chance of the proposal being approved.我必须实话告诉你,这个计划得到批准的可能性几乎没有。 She spoke with brutal honesty - I was too old for the job.她毫不留情地直接告诉我,我年纪太大,不适合这份工作。 He should be praised for his honesty.他应该因为诚实而获得表扬。 And the moral of the story is that honesty is always the best policy.这个故事的寓意是:诚实总是上策。 I have no reason to doubt her honesty, it's just that I can't understand how it happened. Well, I don't want to offend anyone but, in all honesty, I do have some criticisms to make. Honesty, openness & sincerity above board anti-corruption artless artlessly artlessness earnest honestly in all honesty/seriousness/truthfulnessidiom in good faithidiom integrity joking apart/asideidiom let's face itidiom sincerely stainless straight arrowidiom straight upidiom straightforward the straight and narrowidiom transparency upright honestynoun[U] (PLANT)a plant with purple or white flowers whose seeds are contained in discs that become transparent as they dry out: Honesty produces silvery, moon-like seed heads. Perennial honesty is an exceptionally beautiful plant. Flowers & flowering plants aconite adam-and-eve aeonium African daisy agapanthus edelweiss eglantine elderflower elephant ear erythronium loosestrife lords-and-ladies lotus love-in-a-mist lupin sedum sego lily self-heal senecio sensitive plant Idiomhonesty is the best policy honesty | American Dictionaryhonesty noun[ U ] us/ˈɑn·ə·sti/ the quality of being honest: The judge praised the girl’s honesty. Examples of honestyhonesty It is not structural honesty, which was looked for. More work is also needed to understand the influence of different factors, such as the interaction protocol, authority, expected utility, honesty, etc., on argument generation. Although many made reference to an appreciation for "honesty," they also qualified that in relation to appropriate dose and specificity of information to the context. They offer several ethically defensible solutions to the case by balancing respect for persons, honesty, and fairness. All that mattered was the honesty of the answer. Ultimately, organic certification depends heavily upon the integrity of the producer and the honesty of all affiliated handlers when reporting to their certifier. Her raw honesty and unflinching gaze on the subject of her own grief reveal a wisdom which her earlier writings have always suggested. What is required ethically is honesty: self-interest should not, so far as possible, be hidden under a veneer of concern for others. In a contest where there were limited policy difference, the opposition attacked the personal attributes of the incumbent president, such as his competence and honesty. Questions of honesty and allocation of credit do not arise in isolation but are mired in a real-world tangle of relationships, hierarchy, and uncertain consequences. As such, the study supports a dynamic understanding of the tenuous balance between hope and honesty in the clinical encounter. Mathematicians should be more receptive to theoretical material but with safeguards and a strict honesty. However, she consistently succumbs to her similarly intense fear of the intimacy which she rightly believes honesty with her friends will encourage. Yet as long as the counterfactual claim is true, benevolence and honesty, in themselves, are virtues, since by themselves they improve our characters. One feels the honesty of purpose and the struggle with language to present an unsentimentalised picture. See all examples of honesty 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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