| 释义 |
right-thinking, a.
[right adv. 16 b.]
Thinking rightly; holding sound or acceptable views. Also transf. Hence right-thinker n.
1829Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 156 There is always a way that all right-thinking people fall into. 1850Thackeray Pendennis lxiii [lxiv], He thought Blanche..the most pious, gifted, right-thinking, fascinating person he had ever met. 1890Kipling in Pioneer Mail (Allahabad) 19 Mar. 394/1 And verily it is not a good thing to live in the East for any length of time. Your ideas grow to clash with those held by every right-thinking white man. 1920A. Huxley Limbo 137 Jacobsen himself rarely volunteered a remark about the war; it was taken for granted that he thought about it in the same way as all other right-thinking folk. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt iii. 34 It was the very best of water-coolers, up-to-date, scientific, and right-thinking. 1930E. Rice Voyage to Purilia xix. 293 Was marriage..regarded by all right-thinking Purilians as the summit of happiness? 1931A. Huxley Music at Night 172 Granted the preliminary assumption that concupiscence is wicked, right-thinkers are justified in specially discriminating against the representations of this sin... Among the right-thinking the doctrine of the inherent wickedness of concupiscence is still held with an extraordinary intensity. 1934B. Russell Freedom & Organization 1814–1914 xxviii. 394 The area must not be in Asia or Africa; this was clear to all right-thinking people. 1939Ann. Reg. 1938 i. 12 Lord Snell..gave eloquent expression to the grief and indignation felt by all right-thinking men at what was happening in Austria. 1961Times 11 July 12/6 Now no right-thinking suburbanite would be seen on his lawn without wearing Bermudas. 1961Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 861/2 Midcentury is one prolonged grouse..about those ‘right-thinkers’ dedicated to ‘the word with the welfare label’. 1974‘J. Le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor xxxviii. 335 He ought to censure him on behalf of right-thinking men. |