(noun.) the quality of being polite and respectable.
(noun.) the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality.
编辑:珀尔
双语例句
I must indeed, I said; for when just now I repeated the offer of serving him for a deacon, he expressed himself shocked at my want of decency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
It is really too great a violation of decency, honour, and interest, for him to be guilty of. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
What shall I do wi' a woman's clothes in MY bedroom, and not lose my decency! 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
Brummell talked to Julia while he looked at me; and as soon as he could manage it with decency, he contrived to place himself by my side. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
That British love of decency will work miracles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
No regard will be paid to truth, morals, or decency, in the doctrines inculcated. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
And with good right may they go before us--forget not, said the Prior Aymer, the superior decency and decorum of their manners. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
Ah-- Mrs. Archer murmured, in a tone that implied: She had that decency. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
But after all, one can have a little human decency. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
But, however, if you have no sense of decency, I have. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Wars that were unmeaning catastrophes swept down upon any little gleam of prosperity or decency to which this or that community clambered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The remarks I made were certainly, as I conceive, what every female with the least decency or delicacy must have made, _en pareil cas. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
They preserve decency and civility in the highest degrees, but are altogether ignorant of ceremony. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Why, it's a pity you can't be bullied into some sense and decency. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
One can preserve the decencies, even to one's enemies: for one's own sake. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
The apologists of business also justified a rupture with human decencies. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.