词汇 | neighbourly |
释义 | neighbourly adjective UK(USneighborly)uk /ˈneɪ.bəl.i/ us /ˈneɪ.bɚ.li/ friendly or helpful to your neighbours: 友善的;助人为乐的 It was very neighbourly of you to do her shopping for her.你帮她到商店买东西,真是好心。 Friendly affability affable affably affiliative agreeableness congeniality conversable convivial conviviality convivially harmony hospitable hospitably hospitality socially sugar and spiceidiom sweet-natured sweet-tempered sweetness the human touch You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Kind & thoughtful Related wordneighbourliness Examples of neighbourlyneighbourly Neighbourly help, for its part, has been affected by changing economic and social factors. This was a highly flexible instrument of authority which, one suspects, was probably resorted to only after the failure of communal and neighbourly reconciliation. Another was the social and geographical extension of a national public sphere : neighbourly conflicts were increasingly arbitrated impersonally and by supra-local authority. These included personal and neighbourly charity, landlord and tradesman credit, subsidized housing, and whatever charitable sources were available. Fascinating though this essentially anecdotal material is, one really misses the local neighbourly context to these disputes. Two substantial chapters on ' the working class ' deal illuminatingly respectively with employment and workplace issues and with domestic and ' neighbourly ' relations. The reach of the official governance is incomplete, and the popular, positive practice of neighbourly exchange is in conversation with government-provided ideologies of community organization. Certainly such suits do not seem to have produced reconciliations, and many seem to have actually perpetuated neighbourly ill-feeling, breeding further counteractions. Even in rural areas distinct relaxations of neighbourly links were registered. In fact neighbourly ties were an important source of social stability and also provided the basis of much collective action ranging from charitable assistance to petitions against noxious trades. The usually closely-knit networks of relatives and friends in the villages and town neighbourhoods, founded in kinship, trust and good neighbourly relations, are also very important. Of course, it is not directed against neighbourly kindness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In all these new towns the hard outlines will be softened by a warm neighbourly spirit, just as it was in the old towns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the case of both countries, issues concerning neighbourly relations have stalled progress. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This sort of work could be an important part of the work to prevent illegal immigration and could help to improve neighbourly relations. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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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