moral

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n. 道德, 品行, 寓意 a. 道德的, 品性端正的, 精神上的

发音

UK /ˈmɒɹəl/
US /ˈmoɹəl/
其它 /ˈmɑɹəl/

词形变化

morals 复数 morals moraled moraling moralled moralling morals 三单 moraling 现在分词 moralling 现在分词 moraled 过去式 moraled 过去分词 moralled 过去式 moralled 过去分词 moraller more moral 比较级 most moral 最高级

别名

morall SMSC

教材释义与例句

名词

道德；寓意

principles or standards of good behaviour, especially in matters of sex

形容词

道德的；精神上的；品性端正的

relating to the principles of what is right and wrong behaviour, and with the difference between good and evil

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    The ethical significance or practical lesson.

    教训

    The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.

    We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.

  2. 2.

    Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.

    道德

    a candidate with strong morals

  3. 3.

    A depiction of good or heroic actions.

  4. 4.

    A morality play.

    废旧
  5. 5.

    A moral certainty.

    过时 俚语

    1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London "One thing," added George, after the peculiarities of the situation had been sufficiently admitted, "it's going to be the last time I'm mixed up in what isn't strictly on the level. If we get clear this once with anything like tidy, old girl, it'll be that little cottage with the pigs and poultry for a moral."

  6. 6.

    An exact counterpart.

    过时 俚语
v.
  1. 1.

    To moralize.

    不及物
adj. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.

    道德的

    moral judgments; a moral poem

    a moral obligation

  2. 2.

    Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.

    a moral action

  3. 3.

    Capable of right and wrong action.

    a moral agent

  4. 4.

    Probable but not proved.

    a moral certainty

  5. 5.

    Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.

    a moral victory; moral support

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

lesson

上位词 4

meaning significance import signification

下位词 1

epimythium
形容词

反义词 1

immoral

近义相关 6

clean mental righteous chaste clean-living moralistic

参见 7

good honorable righteous honourable virtuous chaste incorrupt

相关短语

moral panic 道德恐慌 moral objectivism moral order moral orders moral turpitude [法] 反公德行为 moral minimum moral authority moral code [法] 道德准则 moral philosophy [法] 伦理学, 道德哲学 moral high ground 道德制高点 moral system moral futurism moral high grounds moral arithmetic

词源

From Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”) (first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).

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