moral
美 [?m?r?l]
英 [?m?r?l] 
- n.寓意;品行;教益
- adj.道德的;道義上的;道德上的;品行端正的
- 網(wǎng)絡摩瑞爾;有道德的;合乎道德的
詞形變化
復數(shù):morals 反義詞
英漢雙解
1. | [obn] 道德的concerned with principles of right and wrong behaviour |
| a moral issue/dilemma/question 道德方面的議題╱困境╱問題 |
| traditional moral values 傳統(tǒng)的道德觀念 |
| a decline in moral standards 道德水準的下降 |
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| a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense 道德意識極強的篤信宗教的人 |
| The newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries. 報紙總是道貌岸然地說別的國家不好。 |
2. | [obn] 道義上的;道德上的based on your own sense of what is right and fair, not on legal rights or duties |
| moral responsibility/duty 道義上的責任╱義務 |
| Governments have at least a moral obligation to answer these questions. 政府至少在道義上有責任回應這些問題。 |
| The job was to call on all her diplomatic skills and moral courage(= the courage to do what you think is right) . 這項工作需要她發(fā)揮全部的外交才能和捍衛(wèi)正義的勇氣。 |
3. | 品行端正的;有道德的following the standards of behaviour considered acceptable and right by most people |
| He led a very moral life. 他這個人一向很正派。 |
| a very moral person 品行非常端正的人 |
4. | [obn] 能辨別是非的able to understand the difference between right and wrong |
| Children are not naturally moral beings. 兒童并非天生就能分辨是非。 |
1. | [pl] 品行,道德(尤指性關系方面)standards or principles of good behaviour, especially in matters of sexual relationships |
| Young people these days have no morals. 現(xiàn)在的年輕人根本不講道德。 |
| The play was considered an affront to public morals . 人們認為這出戲侮辱了公眾道德。 |
| a woman of loose morals(= with a low standard of sexual behaviour) 放蕩的女人 |
2. | [c] 寓意;教益a practical lesson that a story, an event or an experience teaches you |
| And the moral is that crime doesn't pay. 寓意就是犯罪得不償失。 |
習慣用語
take, claim, seize, etc. the moral high ground
聲稱自己的論點在道義上占優(yōu)勢to claim that your side of an argument is morally better than your opponents' side; to argue in a way that makes your side seem morally better
英漢解釋
adj. | 1. 道德(上)的,道義(上)的;守德行的;(特指男女關系上)品行端正的 3. (雖未證明但)無疑的,當然的;【邏】蓋然的,可能的 |
n. | 1. (寓言等的)寓意,教訓;寓言劇;修身,倫理(學);(尤指男女間的)品行;〈罕〉= morale |
英英解釋
例句
Yet any moral superiority New Yorkers may feel should be tempered by the behaviour of the American embassy in London.
不過,美國大使館在倫敦的行為會讓紐約人可能產(chǎn)生的任何道德優(yōu)越感都蕩然無存。
In Celia's view, it was one more warning that the pharmaceutical business should accept moral obligation as well as legal ones.
在西利亞看來,它是對制藥行業(yè)的再次警告,必須接受理應承擔的道德義務和法律責任。
It was not a pleasant commentary on his own character and degree of moral stamina, to say the least.
至少,這也是在他自己的性格與道德程度上不愉快的解釋。
He was not a man to feel any strong moral indignation even on account of trespasses against himself.
他這個人是哪怕自己遭到了侵犯,也不會萌發(fā)強烈的道義上的憤怒的。
One of the authors concluded part of our moral behavior is grounded into a specific part of our brains.
一名作者總結說我們的道德行為的一部分是基于我們大腦的特定部分。
He said he believed the charter represented the realities of the world and the moral code of the country.
他說,他相信憲章代表世界的現(xiàn)實和該國的道德準則。
Yet the syllabus for the Moral Education Center seems to lack a few essentials for meeting today's global super-rich.
不過,女性修養(yǎng)研修中心的課程表似乎缺少與現(xiàn)今的全球超級富豪結識的幾個基本要素。
She was as tired as I was of our side getting beat and treating defeat as evidence of moral virtue and superiority.
我們民主黨人總是把遭受打擊和挫敗看成道德高尚和地位優(yōu)越的證明,希拉里和我一樣對這種態(tài)度感到厭煩。
but prominent ecclesiastics, with some exceptions, continued to be men of inflexible moral principles.
但杰出的僧侶,除了少數(shù)例外,仍是些堅守道德原理的人。
Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existence for him.
罪惡與疾病,使這個世界郁憂陰暗,在他卻幾乎不存在似的。
Bettany Hughes: It could be, then, that this is just a moral fable, that the Atlantis story is just one grand political allegory?
貝特妮·休斯:就這樣,可能亞特蘭蒂斯就這樣成為了一則關于道德的傳說。那么,亞特蘭蒂斯的故事只是一個偉大的政治寓言?
Several years before, as I remember it, Dr. Conwell had been tremendously intrigued by a true story, which had an ageless moral to it.
我記得,康威爾博士在幾年前曾為一個真實的故事而深深著迷,因為它道出了一個永恒的道理。
But the price paid for this sort of intellectual pacification , is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
但是為知識方面這種平靜所付出的代價卻是犧牲掉人類心靈中的全部道德勇敢性。
Management apparently was aware of this practice and allowed it: a prime example, I suspect, of a moral gray zone.
管理層顯然知道這些并允許了:一個道德灰色地帶的典型例子,我懷疑。
He seems to have had some sort of intuitive moral sense that it was time for some bank to pay for its mistakes.
他似乎有某種天生的道德感,認為某些銀行應該為它們所犯下的錯誤付出代價。
He never allows himself to lecture his readers or make severe moral points. His characters speak for themselves.
他從不讓自己在讀者面前高談闊論或嚴肅說教,而是由書里的人物自己表白。
It's easy to sympathise: the erstwhile masters of the universe seem to have forgotten the meaning of both "moral" and "hazard" .
這很容易讓人同情:過去的宇宙主宰者(mastersoftheuniverse)們似乎忘記了“道德”和“風險”的涵義。
And I maintain that the kind of formal moral obligation described in Kant's categorical imperative does not actually exist.
我主張在康德描述的絕對命令的形式道德義務事實上是不存在的。
However, Wiener said he had never seen these women in private, but there is no physical contact, without making any real harm moral thing.
不過,維納稱他從未私下見過這些女性,更沒有肉體上的接觸,沒有做出任何實質(zhì)有損道德之事。
American scientists and businessmen note enviously that religious and moral considerations do not seem to inhibit Indian biotechnologists.
美國科學家和商人有點嫉妒意味的指出,宗教和道義上的考量似乎并沒有妨礙印度的生物學家們。
It was not a pleasant commentary on his own character and degree of moral stamina, to say the least.
至少,這也是在他自己的性格與道德程度上不愉快的解釋。
It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection.
大約這時,我心中形成了一個大膽而又艱巨的計劃,要使道德達到至善至美的境地。
New England had a distinctive moral and social order whose influence spread over much of the United States.
新英格蘭有獨特的道德與社會準則,其影響播及美國的大部。
We should enter every military conflict as a moral crusade requiring the unconditional surrender of the enemy.
我們應該作為一支道義上的十字軍。參加所有的軍事沖突,并且要求我們的敵人無條件投降。
Arguments for the alternatives are usually based either upon moral attitudes or distributional grounds.
二者取舍之爭,往往各有其道德觀念或分配市場上的依據(jù)。
The streets of Florence were not always a moral spectacle in those times.
在那個時代,佛羅倫薩的街道并不總是一個規(guī)規(guī)矩矩的地方。
He was finally able to assert a moral position that is exactly the reverse of his initial belief.
他終于得出了與他最初的信仰完全相反的道德主張。
It thus seemed to follow that moral life possesses a "sacred character" which inspires respect, awe and obedience.
因此似乎可以說,道德生活蘊含著激發(fā)起崇敬、畏懼和服從的“神圣性?!?/jz>
If we refused to join the church, it was equivalent to saying no, to placing ourselves in the position of moral monsters.
要是我們拒絕加入教會,就等于說不,就等于把我們自己置于道義上的惡人的地步。
He felt his moral nature falling to pieces.
他感覺到自己的德行已經(jīng)喪失殆盡。
The moral excellences are handed on from father to son.
那種美德是父子相傳的。
Moral demand of teacher profession is to be a moral person, which may be the only way out.
然而,我們現(xiàn)實中確實對教師專業(yè)提出了更高的道德要求,這在理論上是個困境。
It seems to me that honesty ought to be a moral only canonized by countryman.
誠實應該成為只能夠國人所推崇的一種品性。
He said she believed all human action was the result of a physical health issue or a moral one.
他說她認為人的活動是身體健康方面或者精神上的結果(反映)。
Gandhi was arrested, but British was soon forced to release him, he called it a moral victory.
甘地被逮捕了,但是英國很快被迫釋放他,他稱之為“道德勝利”
Doha added a fiction all of its own with the idea of a "development round" , seen as a clever way of giving grubby trade some moral appeal.
發(fā)展回合的觀念給多哈本身增加了虛構成.分,它被看作是一種聰明的做法,給骯臟的貿(mào)易增加了一些寧德吸引力。
Well, don't you think your learned counsel found a very mild term for you when they described you as a mental and moral coward?
嗯,你這博學的律師把你說成一個心靈上,道德上懦怯的人,你覺得他們是不是替你選擇了分量非常輕的字眼?
Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement.
訓練;修養(yǎng);磨練:為有某一特定性格或行為方式而進行的訓練,尤指為在道德和智力上的進步改善而進行的訓練。
The only baggage he carries is stuffed into a rucksack with no room left for moral scruples, tactical considerations or accountability.
他肩上扛的袋子里沒有道德顧慮,戰(zhàn)術思考,或者責任之類東西的容身之地。
The health sector has humanity's best interests at heart, a strong moral dimension, and a strong set of social values among its many stars.
衛(wèi)生部門時刻牢記人類的最佳利益,堅守嚴格的道德準則,遵循一整套強烈的社會價值觀。
Day continued to broadcast on the loss of human nature, moral decay is the thing it is often seen.
每天陸陸續(xù)續(xù)播報的關于人性缺失,道德淪喪的事情已經(jīng)是屢見不鮮了。
They told him that he had been allowed to enter Agartha because of his high moral and ethical character.
他們告訴他,他被獲準進入,因為他的崇高道德和倫理性質(zhì)Agartha。
Mr Shkurtaj says "Morrison doesn't know shit" and insists he could have worked until 2008 if he had not spoken up for moral rectitude.
什庫爾特耶說“莫里森狗屁不通”,并強調(diào)如果他沒有出于道義公正揭露那些事情,就能夠工作到2008年。
He not only taught me to think, he convinced me, as much by example as words, that it was my moral obligation to do so and to serve others.
他不僅教會我們思考,他通過事例和言語使我堅信,我有責任這樣做并為他人服務。
Some commentators, to my eyes and ears, seemed to suggest that Chinese people were somehow less moral than the rest of us.
我的眼睛和耳朵告訴我,一些評論家似乎認為中國人的道德水準比我們其他人的都低下。
The first nice thing about this evolutionary approach to morality is that it emphasizes the social nature of moral intuition.
這個演化途徑的第一個好處是它強調(diào)了道德本能的社會本質(zhì)。
The political and moral rearing of the younger generation is close to the heart of the movement, and it is to this that we now turn.
我們往回走,正要靠近整個運動的心臟地帶,這兒也理應成為青年一代在政治與道德上的精神圣地。
I' m inclined to think that laziness is what your old Dr Botherem, up in Vermont, used to call the essence of moral evil.
你們佛蒙特那位鮑士倫老博士說得不錯,我也有點相信,懶性是萬惡之本。
Two readers wrote in to say that this was mean-spirited and being a moral and rounded manager involved giving time to charity.
兩位讀者寫信來說,這樣做很卑鄙,花時間做慈善的經(jīng)理是一位品行端正的經(jīng)理。
Today, we look to the sky, the sky is still uncertain , the heart of the moral law of those noble, some we need to call again.
而今,我們仰望蒼穹,天空仍然明朗,內(nèi)心那些崇高的道德法則,有些卻需要我們再次呼喚。
And in what appears to be a curious, roundabout apology for his remarks, he dwells on the "moral values" inherited from his parents.
沃森聲明中還懷著好奇的精神評述了繼承于父母的道德價值觀,該評述同時也委婉的就他的失當評論致歉。