| 单词 | upright |
| 释义 | upright I. 1. a. < Sinanthropus was of medium stature and certainly upright — R.W.Murray > b. < a tall dark girl with that bold upright well-poised figure — Anthony Trollope > c. (1) < designs of freezers … center around the alternatives of chest and upright freezers — J.A.Mixon & H.D.Johnson > < the scribe wrote a large flowing hand … with the individual letters upright and square in formation — Jack Finegan > (2) < had to have a gyroscope … inside it in order to keep it upright — Edward Sackville-West & Desmond Shawe-Taylor > 2. obsolete 3. < upright women shall associate with no men who drink alcohol — Waldo Frank > < his unquestioned integrity and upright innocence — J.G.Cozzens > 4. archaic 5. obsolete < an upright shoe — Robert Burton > 6. 7. < a very decorative antique Sheraton upright wall mirror — Antiques > < upright books > Synonyms: < they hate all chicanery, all evasiveness and slipperiness. They are upright and downright — H.S.Commager > < best described by the old-fashioned word upright. It's a good word, comprises a good many things — all the straight qualities, like loyalty, truthfulness, the right sort of pride — Elizabeth Goudge > honest may describe adherence to truth, candor, straightforwardness, sincerity, fairness, and freedom from fraud and duplicity < the idealism that would build peace and content on honest foundations, and would deny them to none — V.L.Parrington > < only a careful study of the evidence will enable us to give an honest answer — M.R.Cohen > < the honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile — Robert Burns > just may stress choice of the righteous and equitable < a life unblamable and just — William Cowper > < nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation — U.S. Constitution > < crime sometimes pays. The just man … continues unaccountably to suffer, and the wicked to flourish like the green bay tree — Weston La Barre > conscientious may indicate habitual painstaking dutiful effort to accord with moral law < the skillful, conscientious schoolmistresses whose lives were spent in trying to inculcate real knowledge — C.H.Grandgent > < she took to religion, and her conscientious Christian virtues, practiced with stern inclemency, were the canker of the family — Arnold Bennett > scrupulous describes a very careful, meticulous, and sometimes even anxious adherence to dictates of morality and conscience < not one word that I have said runs counter to the demands of delicate and penetrating accuracy of observation, or of scrupulous fidelity to fact as it appears — J.L.Lowes > < the delicate equipoise and scrupulous objectivity which the judge must try to preserve at all times — R.M.Dawson > honorable indicates a holding to codes of honor and sanctioned proprieties < too honorable to lend himself to an accusation which he knew to be false — J.A.Froude > < he avoided the mean and tricky: he was always an honorable foe — W.C.Ford > II. III. archaic < for all beneath the moon would I not leap upright — Shakespeare > IV. 1. a. obsolete b. archaic 2. < a pillar out of upright > 3. a. b. c. d. e. 4. 5. |
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