moral是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than to laws -- 道德的

  • It's her moral obligation to tell the police what she knows. 她把所知道的事告訴警方是道義上的責任。

  • It is not part of a novelist's job to make a moral judgment. 小說家並不需要作道德上的批判。

  • She was the only politician to condemn the proposed law on moral grounds (= for moral reasons). 她是唯一一個從道德角度對提議施行的法律作出譴責的政治家。

  • The Democrats are attempting to capture the moral high ground (= are trying to appear more honest and good than the other political parties). 民主黨試圖顯出在道義上佔優勢。

  • She's a very moral woman. 她是個品行極為端正的女人。

  • Oh, stop being so moral! 哦，別這麼一本正經！

  • Is TV responsible for weakening people's moral fibre (= ability to behave well and honestly and work hard)? 電視是否要對人們的道德品質下降負責呢？

• 1 standards for good or bad character and behaviour -- 道德；品行；道德規範

  • public/private morals 公共／個人道德

  • old-fashioned disapproving a person of loose morals (= whose character or sexual behaviour is considered unacceptable) 放蕩的人

• 2 The moral of a story, event, or experience is the message that you understand from it about how you should or should not behave -- 道德教訓；寓意

  • And the moral of the story is that honesty is always the best policy. 這個故事的寓意是：誠實總是上策。