| 词汇 | respectability |
| 释义 | respectability noun[ U ] uk /rɪˌspek.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/ us /rɪˌspek.təˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/ the quality of being considered socially acceptable: 体面；得体；值得尊敬 an attempt to gain international respectability争取国际社会尊重的努力 The company operates out of modern offices to create an air of respectability.这家公司的经营场所设在现代化办公室中，以营造一种尊贵不凡的氛围。 Suitable and acceptable able acceptability acceptable acceptably accepted convenience conveniently correctly correctness decent decently felicity just what the doctor orderedidiom legitimate practical properly quality re-eligibility re-eligible relevance Examples of respectabilityrespectability Some of these questions, such as the possible determinacy of race and climate, have now lost all respectability in the light of modern science. In general, the author brings a much-needed sense of maturity and respectability to the study of monies, markets, and institutions. Their essence was also (in so many ways) the pursuit of respectability. After a rapid gaze at the other's clothes (to check for the minimum of respectability), a man would accept an invitation to drink. However, its reach hints that here there was something more volatile at stake than the mere offending of ideas of purity and respectability. Vainly hoping to demonstrate by upright living their fitness for mainstream society, they clung tenaciously to bourgeois respectability and doctrinal orthodoxy. Then the role of religion, education and law and order are discussed as qualities epitomizing respectability. The anti-denominational sentiment of the first generation of pentecostals was replaced by a desire for respectability. Parents were also concerned to protect the respectability of their household and the welfare of their daughters. His recordings gave the phonograph a measure of 'classical' respectability that it had previously lacked. Female respectability became more strongly correlated with female subservience. For sake of respectability they lived in detached groups, but within easy reach one of another. They don't seem to have enough rules, theories or terminology to gain the respectability that other subjects have. They 'made custom ' in the courts, instilled discipline in the schools, shaped 'respectability ' and controlled the debate about youth. There were geographical differences, as well as distinctions of class, economic status, respectability and modes of self-presentation. 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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