| 单词 | honor |
| 释义 | hon·or I. 1. a. < a national administration of such integrity … that its honor at home will ensure respect abroad — D.D.Eisenhower > < a prophet is not without honor except in his own country — Mt 13:57 (Revised Standard Version) > b. < a dinner in honor of the football coach > < treat the clergy with honor > 2. < I have the honor to inform you > < the second artist … to be accorded the honor of designing the annual Christmas seal — Phoenix Flame > 3. < if Your Honor please > < His Honor presided > 4. a. < he is an honor to his profession > b. obsolete < the woods, in scarlet honors bright — William Cowper > 5. a. < elected United States Senator in 1794 and governor of Maryland … he declined both honors — American Guide Series: Maryland > b. (1) < among his honors is the Order of the Golden Fleece > (2) < the general was buried with full military honors > (3) honors plural c. archaic < they … made their honors very prettily as they passed by us — Samuel Richardson > d. honors plural < the president did the honors and the new club member acknowledged each introduction with a gracious nod > < handed him the carving knife, and asked him to do the honors of the table > e. (1) < received her B.A. with first class honors from the University of London — B.F.Wright > < gained a first with honors in mathematics — Lois I. Woodville > (2) or honors plural but singular in construction < honor study gives to seniors … an opportunity to do independent study and research in their major field — Bulletin of Bates College > < British universities offer two types of courses in the faculties of arts and science: an honors course … and an ordinary, pass, or general course — I.L.Kandel > f. < the debating team won regional honors > < airlines vie for commercial honors > g. < Camp Fire's method of giving individual recognition is the honor bead — Camp Fire Girl > 6. < fought fiercely for her honor and her life — Barton Black > 7. a. b. 8. a. < code of honor > < an acute sense of honor in private and business matters — Edith Wharton > — compare bushido, noblesse oblige b. 9. a. (1) or honor-card (2) (3) 4. (5) honors plural b. c. Synonyms: < to hold a statesman in high honor > < some member of the family there to see you get your honor — Agnes S. Turnbull > < to accept the honor the university proffered him > homage adds the idea of accompanying praise or tribute especially from one owing allegiance < the ostentatious homage paid by state officials to bishops — Times Literary Supplement > < brought up in the veneration of a man so truly worthy of homage — Matthew Arnold > < the homage which man owes his Creator — M.W.Baldwin > reverence implies profound respect usually colored by love, devotion, or awe < a reverence for all things sacred > < they rather produce in man thoughtfulness, reverence, a sense, confused yet precious, of the boundless importance of the unseen world — Charles Kingsley > < a reverence for government — Sherwood Anderson > deference implies a yielding or submitting to another's judgement or preference out of respect or reverence < the attitude of deference which Elizabethan children were taught to cultivate toward their fathers — G.E.Dawson > < the magistrate and the clergyman … were conceded a deference which superior education, and not superior birth, compelled — H.E.Scudder > obeisance implies a show of honor or reverence by or as if by bowing or kneeling, often applying to a self-humbling gesture in confession of defeat or subjection < the court is also showing great obeisance to the wishes of the executive and administrative branches — New Republic > < continually making humble obeisance to supercilious superiors — A.E.Wier > < unfortunate growing things … found that they were clipped, mowed, segregated, pruned, espaliered and generally bullied into obeisance — T.H.Robsjohn-Gibbings > Synonym: see in addition fame. II. 1. a. < honor your father and your mother — Exod 20:12 (Revised Standard Version) > < he has been honored at half a dozen public luncheons and banquets — J.A.Morris b. 1904 > b. < the only Englishman in all history that the world honors with the surname of Great — Kemp Malone > < in addition to his French decorations, he was honored by the governments of Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Serbia, and Venezuela — J.J.Senturia > 2. < the quality of his statesmanship would honor any country > 3. a. < federal bill … to honor state commitments of addicts — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel > < truck drivers were honoring the picket line — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > b. < honor a treaty > < honor a contract > specifically < honor a check > < honor a requisition … for the surrender of a violator — P.G.Auchampaugh > 4. < honor your partner > |
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