decency
英['diːsnsi] 美['diːsnsi]
1.合宜;得体;正派;合乎礼仪
decency is the quality of following accepted moral standards.
e.g. Unfortunately, on Friday night he showed neitherdecency nor dignity...
不幸的是，周五晚上他表现得既不得体，也不庄重。
e.g. His sense ofdecency forced him to resign.
他顾及颜面，不得不辞了职。
2.（出于礼貌）应该做（但没做）…
If you say that someonedid not have the decency to do something, you are criticizing them because there was a particular action which they did not do but which you believe they ought to have done.
e.g. Nobody had thedecency to inform me of what was planned.
竟然没有一个人最起码地通知我一声计划了些什么。
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1. 庄重：他表示,一些学术界的朋友认为市场改革毁灭了中国的道德架构,但我认为这次显示情况并非如此,中国人基本的庄重(decency)和同情心并没有被个人主义击败.
2. 得体：而传统主义者,包括自由主义的传统主义者,针锋相对地指出,某些调节个人选择的核心原则 和美德对于维持社会凝聚和得体(decency)是根本性的,为什么就不能使法律、公共教育、法官和陪审团偏向它们?
Such conduct outrages our normal sense of decency.
这种行为伤害了我们正常的得体感。
His essential decency makes it impossible to dislike him.
他十分正派，使人不能不喜欢他。
You should have the decency to apologize for what you did.
你应该讲点礼貌，为你所做的事道歉。
All people with a sense of decency will look down upon such conduct as that.
注重尊严的人都会轻视那种行为。
Her behaviour showed a total lack of common decency .
她的举止显示她连起码的礼节都不懂。
Have you no sense of decency ?
你礼貌都不懂吗？
He might have had the decency to apologize.
他其实应该道个歉的。
the basic decencies of civilized society
文明社会的基本行为准则
Unfortunately, on Friday night he showed neither decency nor dignity...
不幸的是，周五晚上他表现得既不得体，也不庄重。
His sense of decency forced him to resign.
他顾及颜面，不得不辞了职。
Nobody had the decency to inform me of what was planned.
竟然没有一个人最起码地通知我一声计划了些什么。
He had the decency to admit his error.
他承认了自己的错误,真是会做人.
Vice breaks in at the breaches of decency.
当廉耻丧失的时候,罪恶就会冲进来.
Not to neglect decency, or cleanliness, for fear of falling into Nastiness.
不可忽略体面 、 清洁, 否则会赃的不堪.
He hoped that for once the individual he referred to would decency to restrain himself.
他希望这一回他提到的那个人能够自尊自爱一些,克制一下自己.
His sense of decency and fair play made him refuse the offer.
他的正直感和公平竞争意识使他拒绝了这一提议.
He is a man of decency.
他为人正派.
It is a mockery of human decency to call these people'guests '.
把这些人称为“客人 ” 真是不知羞耻.
Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.
你的行为有伤风化.
In her profligate life, she lost all sense of decency.
在她放荡的生活中, 她完全丧失了一个正常人的理智.
You should have the decency to apologize for what you did.
你应该讲点礼貌,为你所做的事道歉.
It was an affront to common decency.
这是对社会礼仪的公然冒犯.
Though for the sake of decency I had to offer it to her also.
然而为了礼貌的关系,我也不得不给她.
Having children without getting married is an offence against decency.
渔民们自发地组织起来共同对抗渔霸.
This novel was widely condemned as an offence to public decency.
这本小说被公认为伤风败俗.
A journalist should always live up to the ideals of truth, decency, and justice.
记者必须始终践行真实 、 正直 、 正义的理想.
See all that tells me there's still a shred of decency left inside you.
这一切告诉我,你还有一点良心.
Overcoming every reluctance and instinctive decency, he had let himself consider sex.
尽管出于本性的正直, 他一万个不情愿这样想,但还是忍不住去考虑性的问题.
He was a man of decency and good judgment.
他是一个正派的、判断力很强的人.
They showed a shameless disrespect for human rights and the norms of human decency.
他们无耻地蔑视人权和人类尊严的准则.
Amid the welcome confusion of cups and cakes a certain physical decency established itself.
递茶杯、传蛋糕所造成的忙乱大受欢迎,在忙乱之中建立了一种有形的体统.
Governments are often drawn into disputes about matters of public taste and decency.
政府经常被拉入到有关公众品位和社会风化问题的争论中.
To steal something of sentimental value shows a total lack of common decency.
偷盗具有情感价值的东西说明这个人连最起码的行为准则都彻底失去了.
The great Design of Prudence..is to determine and manage every Affair with decency.
出自：I. Watts