一、详细释义:
n.
道德,伦理;品行 [U]
例句:
The morality they absorbed was beyond question.
他们的道德无可置疑。
例句:
Henry is a person of strict morality.
亨利是个品行极其端正的人。
道德观 [U]
例句:
But if morality is rooted in the nature of things, then it should be accessible to the inquiring mind.
但是,如果道德观植根于事物的本性之中,它就应该被进行探索的理智所认识。
例句:
In this passage, she claims that morality is nothing more than habit.
在这段选文中,她提出道德观无非是习惯的主张。
道德规范
例句:
Have standards of morality improved?
道德规范标准是否有所改进?
例句:
That's bourgeois morality.
这是资产阶级的道德规范。
(道德上的)教训,寓意;说教 [C]
例句:
He ended his lecture with a trite morality.
他以陈腐的说教结束了演讲。
道德剧 [C]
例句:
They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play.
它们看上去像中世纪道德剧中代表暴饮的形象。
二、词义辨析:
morals,morality,ethics
这些名词均含“道德”之意。morals多用于实践方面,指按习惯或社会公认的道德标准,尤指男女之间关系的道德。morality指符合道德标准的行为,或用道德标准衡量某事,既指社会的又指个人的道德。 ethics多用于伦理方面,指符合于伦理学中所指的好的行为,常指公平正真地对人对事的品德。
三、相关短语:
morality play
n. 道德剧, 寓意剧
四、参考例句:
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.
没有道德的技术是野蛮的;没有技术的道德是软弱的。
Have standards of morality improved?
道德规范标准是否有所改进?
Henry is a person of strict morality.
亨利是个品行极其端正的人。
He is a person of strict morality.
他是个品行极其端正的人。
The morality they absorbed was beyond question.
他们的道德无可置疑。
No morality can be founded on authority.
道德不可能建立在权威的基础上。
The morality they absorbed was beyond question.
他们的道德无可置疑。
How do you perceive public morality?
您是如何理解公共道德的?
Religion and morality enjoin this conduct.
宗教和道德禁止这种行为。
They are discussing the morality of abortion.
他们正在讨论堕胎的道德性。