| 词汇 | example_english_decent |
| 释义 | Examples of decentThese 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. Only through coeducation could women receive a decent professional education. I cannot see that there is a decent answer forthcoming here. The organizers had to secure basic things, such as decent clothing and access to showers, even before attempting to start the workshops. A good challenge is to find a decent functional program for the problem. If all members of a population have a decent living standard but there are large inequalities, foreign aid is arguably not warranted. I wish there were some decent concerts around here. Certainly, they had a right to a decent life and a fair share in the outcome of agricultural production. Nowhere, it was suggested, could decent, modern buildings be found. The reader is neither submitted to information overload nor deprived of a decent factual diet. The images of ' others ' were essential elements when people processed their views of themselves as decent persons. A humanistic, decent flag hides the bullying of those who know or have the illusion of being the strongest. Too often one feels that it is wiser to concentrate on the creations alone and to leave the creator shrouded in decent obscurity. There were twelve farmers of fifty acres or more in 1754, while fifty-two others had decent smallholdings or small farms. They defined their army service in contractual terms, trading their time for an expectation of pay, decent treatment, and a say in the decision-making process. With decent editing, this could turn into a good book. When all activity had to cease there was to be care until it was time for a decent funeral. Rapid urbanization, however, increases the demand for urban collective consumption - shelter, decent housing, electricity, piped water, transpor tation, health care, and education. There were clearly pressures on the mine manager, a decent enough former collier, to keep up production and avoid any disruption for safety matters. In each case, the fiendish producer threatens decent people and innocent children. A decent author and a decent public may surely take the premonitory symptoms for granted. Where, however, prosperity allows for decent pensions, the transformation of material standards in later life has been a major change during the twentieth century. Most people's personal assets and savings are insufficient for a decent life, and many cannot now afford the medical services and medications that they need. Within this, a decent family apartment needed three rooms and a kitchen, with separate bedrooms for parents (in the living room) and boys and girls. The general pattern seems to have been one of vigorous, but professionally incompetent, private enterprise belatedly corrected by decent research. Nevertheless, one can certainly construct a cogent and, in fact, decent (although not particularly liberal) argument to treat this patient against his will. Whereas this conduct might be condoned for men, it did not suit decent women. Again, cloning does not harm the child, nor is it clear that the right to a decent minimum opportunity for development would be violated. Would the right to a decent minimum opportunity for development be violated? How will their rights to a decent livelihood be safeguarded ? As with any decent popular music history it evokes the music itself and so provides a wealth of memories. As the babyboomers near retirement, assurance of a decent standard of living has become one of the most debated economic issues of recent times. Others are convinced that only the social rented sector can provide the combination of decent housing, support and affordability which is required. My one intention was the destruction of the undesirables who continued to make miserable the lives of ordinary decent citizens. They simply would not play by the rules of decent society. The key preconditions are national unity, a decent level of social well-being, free markets, civic culture and independence from external constraints. No decent traffic scheme can stop with blood-alcohol limits and traffic lights: it also needs prohibitions on dangerous driving. The main criterion in evaluating social rights is the degree to which they provide a decent standard of living independently of market forces. What is the purpose of such an allegation aside from besmirching the collective character of a rather decent group of people ? The small piazza is a decent space, not a wind-blown desert. Then, we will provide him a decent living. Most of these older women were content with an appearance that looked decent and required little fuss to maintain, and they avoided extremes in appearance. There were some decent people in the regional galleries. In such a scenario one might believe that justice requires that we implement a genetic decent minimum. Success in these languages is the key to decent employment. Now the elderly are really afraid to go into the hospital, for they might not get any decent care. A more basic approach argues that people have certain equal basic rights to decent minimal conditions for pursuing a good life or for human flourishing. After his unlikely, indeed miraculous, recovery in 1915, he worked to secure human rights for the wounded and decent pensions for the disabled. In fact, public health care systems provide decent, high-quality, health care in many countries at a reasonable cost. Women were entitled to wear lipstick and perfume, whilst men were encouraged to buy smart suits and decent shoes. One last point: for once the book is of a decent size that will not war p your bookshelves! As was only decent, those he had helped to send abroad would offer their own services to him. Rights to life, right to a decent living and right to freedom are all individual and community rights. Although varied in style and presentation, the figures are generally of decent quality. The massive amounts and the intensity of the harm visited on innocents and on decent people can be considered as a separate problem. Where there is a labour shortage, of course, decent housing can attract and keep workers. The book provides a decent picture of current work that would be appropriate for a library collection. Our four new mates who had been there for above 2 years were all jolly decent fellows. Clearly, there is a need for a decent old age pension scheme for the rural poor, most of them working in the agriculture sector. The editing process produces an essay in film or radio: and, as in any decent essay, there is a point of view and an argument. The book argues for access to affordable, decent housing as a condition of social inclusion. The importance of proximity should not be underestimated, as access to decent roads between towns can make all the difference in the perception and realisation of development objectives. 36. The stitching looks substantial, the paper is of high quality, and together with the decent hard cover the book looks as though it will tolerate substantial misuse. The paradox of audit is that it is not itself reliably auditable, and the audit society relies on a decent silence about precisely what the audit emperor is wearing. In our experience, even monkeys gravitate toward an associative, nonmetacognitive performance strategy if they can find an effortless one that earns a decent rate of return. He continued, 'the fact that it's [for] the world market now means that the manufacturers have to produce something that has a decent ®nish to it'. My research results show that, at least for some groups within the proletarian ranks, it was possible to earn a decent living, even if both husband and wife were spinning. The need today is not to close the argument, but to open it; to define and defend the issues which matter if our society is to remain humane and decent. Cultural views of the good, decent person seemed to be the main precept of older people as they processed their view of themselves as moderate drinkers. Generally it is a reasonable little book, in places fairly well written and with a decent variety of topics, even though many are treated very briefly. Readers are finally exhorted to move to a moral economy of long-term care in order to maximise the possibility of a decent life for people throughout their lives. In contrast, for problems where many solutions are possible, value ordering is more important, because even a decent strategy can lead to a solution very quickly. Western democracies and their competitive electoral systems illustrate the advantages of respect for human rights, since they maintain values such as fighting poverty and providing decent living conditions to citizens. In this way they will be able to make a decent living out of providing a service with far more tangible results than they can hope for at present. Hospitals had been paid a global fee for each patient and what was received easily paid for the staff and supplies, plus a decent extra for maintenance and new equipment. Like all such symposial works, it is too long and too fuzzy but contains much information and the price is remarkably low for a very decent production. The challenge from below has also come from the pensioners' movements which are increasingly active in their pursuit of their rights to a decent pension and life after retirement. The disadvantage is, however, that without a decent domain theory or no background knowledge, one cannot expect impressive results and, thus, some effort of domain modeling is required. They have duties to see that the child is provided with adequate food, warmth, shelter, comfort and affection, a decent education, good medical care, and so on. When each experience represents but a single, stochastic sample from a population, it is necessary to aggregate over many samples to obtain a decent estimate of the population statistic. Although the singles sell primarily to sound systems rather than individual consumers, sound-system sales can easily exceed two thousand, constituting a decent profit for an inexpensively produced record. The concept of a basic human need is now generally extended to include requirements for a decent human life which go beyond physical survival, such as education, privacy, freedom. Over 400 structured interviews were conducted and a poverty threshold of $7,000 per month was identified as the minimum required by single elders to enjoy a decent style of living. They are good decent people. Of course, any such cloning would be subject to the constraint that the rights of the child to a decent minimum opportunity for development would not be violated. Theirs are decent and honourable lives, enriched in one way or another, consciously or not, by their conditionality. Campaigns to secure decent housing, health and employment brought women together to organize. The prediction for decent is in- (indecent) in both instances, which means it was a successful prediction for indecent but not for undecent. The introductory concepts available on the website are simple in their descriptions and not very explanatory; decent textbooks serve the purpose better. Mutual advantage is not the test or the mark of justice or even of decent social arrangements. To the contrary, those on other planets have only been able to eke out a decent living by dint of incredibly hard work. With a financial system based on municipal rents, the possibility of decent maintenance and upkeep was defeated by the massive scale of non-payment. On each of these dimensions there were certain tasks which were important for older people in being able to maintain a decent standard of living. Idealism, like any philosophically decent metaphysics, can be logically sustained in the teeth of any evidence, if one isn't scared of wild ideas. One part of the common good condition is that a decent hierarchical society must honor human rights. The freedoms traditionally associated with political participation-speech, press, association and assembly-fall well outside the pale of rights a decent society must honor. Ending income poverty is not on its own enough to ensure decent opportunities for all children. The claim is that careworkers (paid and unpaid) should have the right to decent working conditions, which include recognition, support and basic rights. Once the initial practical difficulties had been ironed out, there were decent facilities for medical care, education, and religion as well as food and shelter. 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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