| 单词 | 体面的 |
| 释义 | 〔respectable〕a respectable hat.一顶体面的帽子〔improper〕Not in keeping with conventional mores; indecorous:不合宜的：和传统的规范不相符的；不体面的：〔honorable〕Attended by marks of recognition and honor:体面的，可尊敬的：伴有荣誉和认可的特征的：〔unmeet〕Not fitting or proper; unseemly.不适合的：不适合或恰当的；不体面的〔unbecoming〕Not appropriate, attractive, or flattering:不恰当的：不合适的，无吸引力的；不体面的：〔honorable〕received an honorable burial.得到隆重体面的葬礼〔presentable〕Fit for introduction to others:适于向别人介绍的，体面的：〔artifice〕 Trick in this sense implies willful deception and often less than honorable motivation: Trick 在这个意义上含有故意的欺骗，常常有不体面的动机： 〔untoward〕Improper; unseemly.不适当的；不体面的〔woebegone〕Of an inferior or deplorable condition:寒酸的，不体面的：处于下等的或悲惨的状态：〔decent〕Free from indelicacy; modest.高雅的；体面的〔honorable〕led an honorable life.过着体面的生活〔respectable〕Acceptable in appearance; presentable:体面的：外表上合意的；漂亮的：〔ungenerous〕Mean-spirited; illiberal; ignoble.精神自私的；气量狭窄的；不体面的〔proper〕Strictly following rules or conventions, especially in social behavior; seemly:合乎礼教的：严格遵循规则或传统的，尤指在社交行为方面；体面的：〔indecency〕The state or quality of being unseemly or immodest.不正派，下流：不体面的或不正派的样子或品性〔prude〕Being a prude has never been widely considered a good thing,but if we dig further into the history of the wordprude, we will find that it had a noble past.The change for the worse took place in French.Frenchprude first had a good sense, "wise woman,” but apparentlya woman could be too wise or, in the eyes of some,too observant of decorum and propriety,and soprude took on the sense in French that was brought into English along with the word, first recorded in 1704.The French word first meant "wise woman"becauseprude was a shortened form of prude femme (earlier in Old Frenchprode femme ), a word that was modeled on earlierpreudomme, "a man of experience and integrity.” The second part of this word is, of course,homme, "man.” Old Frenchprod, meaning "wise, prudent,” is from Vulgar Latin prōdis with the same sense. Prōdis in turn comes from Late Latin prōde, "advantageous,” derived from the verbprodesse, "to be good.” We can see that the history ofprude is filled with usefulness, profit, wisdom, and integrity, but in spite of all this,things did not turn out that well.人们从来没有普遍地认为做一个拘守礼仪的人是一件好事，但是如果我们深挖prude 这个词的历史， 我们会发现这个词有一个体面的过去。这个词变成贬义是在法语中发生的。法语词prude 开始时是褒义的，意为“明智或聪明的女人，” 但是很显然，女人可能会过于聪明或者在某些人的眼里，对仪表和行为的得体过分注重，这样法语词prude 就有了这个和词一起被引入英语的意思， 并最早记载于1704年。这个法语词开始时的意思之所以是“聪明的女人”，因为prude 是 prudefemme 的缩写形式 （更早的时候在古法语中为prodefemme )， 这个词模仿更早的一个词preudomme “一个富有经验而又正直的男人”而来。 这个词的第二部分当然是意为“男人”的homme。 意思是“聪明，谨慎”的古法语prod 由一个相同意思的俗拉丁词 prodis 而来。 Prodis 从后期拉丁语 prode 演变而来，意为“有利的”， 该词又从意思为“从善”的动词prudesse 衍生而来。 我们现在明白prude 的历史充满了有利、利益、智慧或忠诚的意思， 但尽管如此，事情并没有变得那么好〔demimonde〕A group whose respectability is dubious or whose success is marginal:名声不好的人：其体面的社会地位令人怀疑或其成功被视为微不足道的人的团体：〔disreputable〕Lacking respectability, as in character, behavior, or appearance.邋遢的，不名誉的：不体面的，名声不好的，如在品质、行为或外貌上〔graceful〕"England's slow, graceful economic collapse"(J.C. Winters)“英国缓慢的，体面的经济衰退”(J.C.温特斯)〔savory〕Morally respectable; inoffensive:体面的：道德上值得尊敬的；不冒犯别人的： |
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