| 单词 | moral |
| 释义 | mor·al I. 1. a. < moral values > < moral distinctions > < moral conduct > < moral convictions > < a moral monster > b. 2. < a moral lesson > < a moral poem > < a moral story > 3. a. < the use of science is a moral question, that is to say, a human question — Irwin Edman > < a moral act, the result of a choice — Norman Podhoretz > b. < a moral agent > 4. < a whole series of political, organizational, military and … moral triumphs — Joseph Alsop > < gone to the dinner party determined to make a success … understanding the moral importance to herself of this initial contact with society — I.V.Morris > 5. a. < not exactly a religious man, though a highly moral one — Katharine F. Gerould > < a moral life > < took a moral position on the issue though it cost him the nomination > < show moral courage > b. Hegelianism 6. a. < have a moral certainty that my will is free > b. < have a moral certainty that the prisoner is guilty > 7. < the ranch was legally all Mother's, except that Grampa … had a moral claim upon it — Mary Austin > < felt under a sort of moral obligation not to be indifferent — Joseph Conrad > 8. a. < a reflection of the moral imperatives of the community — Kingsley Davis > < the enormous importance of moral conformity to the stability of society — Talcott Parsons > b. < middle-aged and cautious and monogamic and moral — Sinclair Lewis > c. < appeared moral, self-controlled, well-bathed, and literate — Jean Stafford > < the teacher had to be more moral — which usually meant more conventional — J.M.Barzun > d. < a highly moral man who was outraged by the rowdy language of his fellow soldiers > Synonyms: < living a moral life > < the right thinker, the great moral statesman, the perfect model of the Christian cad — H.L.Mencken > < there were black marketeers, but they were not seen as products of the moral deficiencies of the ruling class — Edward Shils > ethical may suggest conformity to a code or to the conclusions of other considerations of right, fair, equitable conduct < an ethical decision > < an ethical solution to the problem — Edward Shils > virtuous may still indicate blended rectitude and integrity; often it implies abstinence from illicit sex < pacifists assume that other people are as reasonable and virtuous as they are themselves — Harold Nicolson > < a man might grind the faces of the poor; but so long as he refrained from caressing his neighbors' wives and daughters, he was regarded as virtuous — Aldous Huxley > < all virtuous persons … whose lives are chaste and placid — Elinor Wylie > righteous suggests freedom from guilt, culpability, or questionability; it may suggest religious or sectarian sanction or sanctimoniousness < persecution seemed justified in reason; it was very logical; broad reasons of Christian statecraft seemed to make for it; and often a righteous zeal wielded the weapon — H.O.Taylor > < our wits are much more alert when engaged in wrongdoing (in which one mustn't be found out) than in a righteous occupation — Joseph Conrad > < a republic admirable in justice and righteous in all its ways — V.L.Parrington > noble may indicate moral eminence with lack of any taint of the petty or dubious < a noble ideal, worthy of a Christian — V.L.Parrington > < behavior … when the crisis actually came was simple, dignified, and even noble — P.E.More > < the true task of man is to create for himself a noble memory, a mind filled with grandeur, forgiveness, restless ideals, and the dynamic ethical ferment preached by all religions at their best — J.L.Liebman > II. 1. a. < love makes gentlemen even of boors … is the constant moral of medieval story — Henry Adams > < the moral of his life > < the moral of recent history > b. < the view … that highly serious art is didactic, ending with a moral — G.K.Chalmers > 2. 3. morals plural a. < as principal, he maintained a high standard of morals and manners in the school — L.M.Crosbie > < losing touch with the ordinary patterns and morals of life — Alan Moorehead > b. < provoked a long and thoughtful discussion of the mores and morals of American womanhood — T.O.Heggen > < a person of loose morals > 4. morals plural < the science of morals endeavors to divide men into the good and the bad — J.W.Krutch > 5. morals plural < the Greek dramatists moralize only because morals are woven through and through the texture of their tragic idea — T.S.Eliot > < an authoritative code of morals has force and effect when it expresses the settled customs of a stable society — Walter Lippmann > 6. archaic < the long chin … is the very moral of the governor's — Tobias Smollett > 7. < the moral of the nation is therefore likely to be as important a factor in war as the moral of armies has always been — Atlantic > III. archaic |
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