| 词汇 | moral |
| 释义 | moral adjective uk /ˈmɒr.əl/ us /ˈmɔːr.əl/ B2 relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than to laws: 道德的 It's her moral obligation to tell the police what she knows.她把所知道的告诉警方是道义上的责任。 It is not part of a novelist's job to make a moral judgment.小说家并不需要作道德上的评判。 She was the only politician to condemn the proposed law on moral grounds (= for moral reasons).她是唯一一个从道义上对提议施行的法律进行谴责的政治家。 The Democrats are attempting to capture the moral high ground(= are trying to appear more honest and good than the other political parties).民主党试图显出在道义上占优势。 C1 behaving in ways considered by most people to be correct and honest: 有道德的，品行端正的 She's a very moral woman.她是个品行极为端正的女人。 Oh, stop being so moral!哦，别这么一本正经！ Is TV responsible for weakening people's moral fibre(= ability to behave well and honestly and work hard)?电视是否对人们的道德品质下降负有责任？ Compare amoral immoral My moral duty as Secretary-General of the United Nations is to do everything possible to avoid war.我作为联合国秘书长在道义上的职责是尽一切可能制止战争。 My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today's society.和往常一样，我奶奶对当今社会世风日下深感痛惜。 He has very strong moral convictions. How on earth can you say that? Do you have no moral values? There is a very moral tone to this book.这本书很有道德教育的意味。 Morality and rules of behaviour antisocial antisocially baseness biocentric bioethicist claim ethic ethical ethically ethicist ethos honour liberty motto principled propriety rule-based savoury script the rights and wrongsidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Virtue and moral good moral noun uk /ˈmɒr.əl/ us /ˈmɔːr.əl/ moralnoun (STANDARDS)moralsC2[ plural ] standards for good or bad character and behaviour: 道德;品行;道德规范 public/private morals公共／个人道德 moralnoun (MESSAGE)[ C ] The moral of a story, event, or experience is the message that you understand from it about how you should or should not behave: 道德教训;寓意 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。 Morality and rules of behaviour antisocial antisocially baseness biocentric bioethicist claim ethic ethical ethically ethicist ethos honour liberty motto principled propriety rule-based savoury script the rights and wrongsidiom moral | American Dictionarymoral adjective us/ˈmɔr·əl, ˈmɑr-/ moraladjective (RIGHT)relating to standards of good behavior, honesty, and fair dealing, or showing high standards of this type: a highly moral man It’s her moral obligation to tell the police what she knows. moral noun[ C ] us/ˈmɔr·əl, ˈmɑr-/ moralnoun[C] (RIGHT)a message about how people should or should not behave, contained in a story, event, or experience: The moral of the story is that honesty is the best policy. moralnoun[C] (LESSON)literature a lesson that can be learned from a story, esp. a fable or other work of literature Examples of moralmoral Only where both coincide can business be expected to act out of moral concerns for past sins or the future public good. For similar reasons, we examine attitudes towards gender roles and moral issues. In addition to prescribing forms of work to the patient, each of the three models assigns the physician a moral function alongside his technical function. Natural philosophy was supposed to lead to moral virtue, to modesty and religious reverence. Is the symbolic value of the technology of any moral relevance? Now, these were the people doing 'moral' things. Moral and socio-religious explanations thus jostled for space in a wider teleology of profanation and purification. Rights-based arguments founder on the difficulties of transferring a general moral claim of an individual patient to a specific claim against individual physicians. Finally, it is in the interest of employees to have ethical care that respects them as persons - in the full moral sense of the term. An authority that rests on substantive moral limitations is conceptually possible. Nonetheless, it appears that moral orthodoxy, as defined by what the public is prepared to accept, is on the side of the animal experimentalists. In the moral case, we can reasonably require agents to inquire into the nature of the situation when deciding what to do. So, if it can be the case that a deity's activity cannot account for worlds' moral differences, (7a) is false. Feminist ethicists reject this stance and assert that moral philosophy has to pay attention to the psychological, social and political dimensions of life. Out of "idleness," experts generated such "futile" knowledge, and brought about a general dissolution of morals and corruption of taste. See all examples of moral 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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