| 单词 | honest |
| 释义 | hon·est I. 1. a. < make an honest dollar > < an atmosphere still magically colored by gentility, culture and honest wealth — Winston Brebner > < the first need is for honest and candid presentation of the facts — Dean Acheson > b. < making honest stops at stop signs — Christian Science Monitor > < when it's not making honest rain … it's misting from the marshes or fogging from the sea — T.H.Fielding > — often used intensively in hyphened combination with to and an object < the first honest-to-God American beauty I had seen in four months — Tom O'Reilly > < a real honest-to-goodness Cape Cod lobster stew — M.F.Leonard > c. (1) < younger sons … were often apprenticed to some honest trade — Wallace Clare > (2) < a cafeteria which … serves really good honest food — C.M.Smith > 2. a. obsolete b. < the fortune … made the woman honest, as her second protector immediately married her — G.L.Phillips > c. chiefly Britain < an honest fellow, who did his best to please > < I kept six honest serving-men — Rudyard Kipling > 3. a. < workers who would not take the trouble to turn out an honest job — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > b. obsolete < now let's go to an honest alehouse and sing Old Rose — Izaak Walton > 4. a. < honest merchants > < no honest prostitute would have had the face to ask the prices they asked — Robert Graves > b. < early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility — F.L.Wright > < an honest appeal to the people was the last thing desired by the Federalists — V.L.Parrington > c. < the honest sleep of any tired child — Alice Marriott > < the honest average playgoer simply wants to be told what play is best worth going to — for him — C.E.Montague > Synonyms: see upright II. obsolete III. < I have ever found thee honest true — Shakespeare > < honest I won't tell > — often used intensively in hyphened combination with to and an object < knowing I washonest-to-goodness off and away — Helen Eustis > |
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