| 词汇 | prudence |
| 释义 | prudence noun[ U ] uk /ˈpruː.dəns/ us /ˈpruː.dəns/ behaviour that is careful and avoids risks: 谨慎 The firm was commended for its financial prudence.这家公司/企业因其财务稳健而受推崇。 Everyone agreed that panic wasn't called for, prudence was.每个人都同意不需要恐慌，但要谨慎。 See prudent She edits a personal-finance magazine that preaches fiscal prudence. Prudence demands preserving as much of forest systems as possible. Casinos stay in business because few of the people who visit them have the prudence to walk out while they're ahead. Paying attention and being careful attention span attentiveness baby be good, and if you can't be good, be carefulidiom be on (your) guardidiom egg flow follow/steer/take the middle course/way/pathidiom get religionidiom guard hang hang on/upon something religion revolve revolve around someone/something safety safety firstidiom see past something sit the/a glare of somethingidiom prudence | Business Englishprudence noun[ U ] uk /ˈpruːdəns/us the state of being careful in the way you make decisions or spend money so that you avoid unnecessary risks: The challenge we are trying to meet is balancing financial prudence with the need for success. economic/fiscal prudence ACCOUNTING the principle of not showing assets or profits to be greater than they might be, or losses to be smaller than they might be, in a company's accounts: The prudence principle states that businesses should report their assets and liabilities in the most unfavorable position. See also conservatism Examples of prudenceprudence Prudence directs theoretical activity (whose end is truth) toward the investigation of certain truths; however, prudence cannot tell theory what to find. Merchants pragmatically expressed their indignation at usurers and bankrupts as violators of the charity, moderation, and prudence they themselves claimed to display. The preoccupations of this administrative elite prove remarkably similar to the topics of deliberative oratory : the competing claims of prudence, honour, and necessity. Since prudence determines what we should and should not do, its exercise is the focal point of ethics. In contrast, prudence is ' dictative ' because it dictates that an act should be done. So the representatives must be told explicitly that they represent temporal aspects of a continuing natural person who is in the circumstances of prudence. As these are precisely the scenarios against which enrollees participate in health insurance, this is simple prudence. The last two virtues that the book ascribes to the bourgeoisie and argues to be central for commerce are prudence and justice. Handled with prudence, the press can be a prime source not only for political history but for all manner of social history as well. I think this is a good starting point for an acceptable theory of prudence. There is a strong etymological connection between prudence and foresight. This slicing is done before we have determined what prudence requires. These situations call for prudence in the use of humanitarian interventions. Prudence may direct technique and theory by specifying the realm of their activity + what should be made, what questions investigated. Indeed, as she mentioned earlier, prudence is about right reasoning, in order to apply good means to good ends, not necessarily self-serving ends. See all examples of prudence 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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