decorous
单词辨析:
主要指人的外表或者行为很得体的。
a decorous hug
礼貌得体的拥抱
It is decorous to wear a tie at an evening party.
在晚会上佩戴领带是得体的。
指道德标准符合社会规范的。
She is a decent citizen.
她是个正派的市民。
The President did the decent thing.
总统做了他该做的事。
指根据通行的行为规范,言行举止符合某一情境或社交场合的,但此义现已不常用。
It is not seemly for guests to gossip about the hostess.
客人对女主人说三道四似乎不大得体。
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O shade, so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace;
啊,白日里那么沉着和端庄,状貌安详,步履均匀。
The tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme.
促膝谈心是件非常雅致的事情。
On the overall ethos, the 《 the white deer plain 》 informs an a race at resist the cosmic will, resist the threat of the great universe, resist the decorous tragedy spirit of the challenge of the destiny.
在整体的民族精神上,《白鹿原》传达出一个民族在反抗宇宙的意志,反抗大自然的威胁,反抗命运的挑战的厚重的悲剧精神。
Our young life can have much decorous?
我们年轻的生命能有多厚重?
They go for decorous walks every day in parks with their nanny.
他们每天都和保姆一起在公园里散步,表现得很有教养。
To feel, or feign, decorous woe.
感到或装作适当的悲伤。