| 单词 | moral |
| 释义 | moral (mɒrəl , US mɔːr- ) Word forms: morals 1. plural noun Morals are principles and beliefs concerning right and wrong behaviour. ...Western ideas and morals. They have no morals. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Moral means relating to beliefs about what is right or wrong. She describes her own moral dilemma in making the film. ...matters of church doctrine and moral teaching. ...the moral issues involved in 'playing God'. Synonyms: ethical, social, behavioural morally adverb [ADVERB adjective/adverb, ADVERB after verb] When, if ever, is it morally justifiable to allow a patient to die? Is there morally any difference between eating a cow and eating a horse? 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Moral courage or duty is based on what you believe is right or acceptable, rather than on what the law says should be done. The Government had a moral, if not a legal duty to pay compensation. ...his moral courage and sane defence of his philosophy. 4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A moral person behaves in a way that is believed by most people to be good and right. The people who will be on the committee are moral, cultured, competent people. Synonyms: good, just, right, principled morally adverb [ADVERB with verb] Art is not there to improve you morally. 5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If you give someone moral support, you encourage them in what they are doing by expressing approval. Moral as well as financial support was what the West should provide. 6. countable noun The moral of a story or event is what you learn from it about how you should or should not behave. I think the moral of the story is let the buyer beware. [+ of] The moral is that, once cooked, they look the same and taste every bit as good. Synonyms: lesson, meaning, point, message 7. moral victory phrase If you say that someone has won a moral victory, you mean that although they have officially lost a contest or dispute, they have succeeded in showing they are right about something. She said her party had won a moral victory. We stood up for ourselves, and that's a moral victory. Quotations: Food first, then moralsThe Threepenny Opera Idioms: the moral high ground the belief that your policies and actions are morally superior to the policies and actions of your rivals The party now held the moral high ground and he, as President, could defend it in every country in the world. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: bad moral Not such a bad moral lesson, even for today. Times, Sunday Times They were in general, men of bad moral characters embarrassed in their private affairs, or the tools of such as were. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The authorities acted clumsily last year in a crackdown on rappers, seen as purveyors of bad morals. Times, Sunday Times Values education can show which morals are bad morals and which are good. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were not crimes under the moral law as recognized by the most civilized nations of antiquity. Christianity Today He argues that accountable government and the rule of law succeeded primarily in societies that had a politically powerful source of moral law independent of sovereignty. The Times Literary Supplement They broke the moral law. Times, Sunday Times He then works backwards from there to prove the relevance and weight of the moral law. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The moral law stands on an entirely different foundation from the ceremonial or ritual law... Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Could it be that there just isn't enough time for moral outrage when we are so busy trying to outdo each other with our paeans? Times, Sunday Times Prudery, moral outrage and manufactured affront are now the standard currency of debate. Times, Sunday Times If we really believed that we are nothing more than accidental collections of atoms, moral outrage over anything would be irrational. Christianity Today Every accusation of diving brings moral outrage from all connected with the diver. Times, Sunday Times That careful pruning of my stand-up act had nothing to do with moral outrage or fear of the same. Times, Sunday Times No moral philosopher wants to taint himself with that particular kind of cleverness. The Times Literary Supplement Challenging his views will be a senior social worker, a drugs-charity lawyer and a moral philosopher. Times, Sunday Times Before he was a politician, he was a moral philosopher. Times, Sunday Times He trained as a moral philosopher, but now also slithers through the glamorous worlds of evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience. Times, Sunday Times The donors include many of relatively modest means, including a school nurse, a moral philosopher, a bioethicist, a language teacher, a yoga teacher and a civil servant. Times, Sunday Times Both books are effective as thrillers; both have a complexity of technique and moral purpose that make them considerably more. The Times Literary Supplement If adhering to green principles gives people a sense of moral purpose, they are less likely to be willing to compromise. Times, Sunday Times Out of humiliation was born a renewed sense of patriotism and moral purpose. Times, Sunday Times However, he suggests that stress can be reduced, and our talents liberated, if we work towards bigger ideals such as family, country or moral purpose. Times, Sunday Times She was not perfect, but oh how we need someone of her clear vision and moral purpose. Times, Sunday Times And, most important, what should be the common currency for such moral reasoning? Times, Sunday Times In contrast, when the choices involved people 'just like us', moral reasoning was never fully eclipsed. The Times Literary Supplement Many within the ranks resisted this debased form of moral reasoning. The Times Literary Supplement His plea for caution contained sound historical and moral reasoning. Times, Sunday Times Juveniles are most likely to depend on preconventional moral reasoning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 More interesting are questions of how often moral rectitude disguises murkier motives, and whether talking cures offer dubious absolution for wrongdoing. Times, Sunday Times In the 1940s and 1950s, the film studios made their stars sign contracts attesting to their moral rectitude. Times, Sunday Times It would give help, but only to those observing its self-imposed principles of moral rectitude, clean living and social conformity. Times, Sunday Times This will leave many of us confused about how to feel in this climate of moral rectitude. Times, Sunday Times Her modest, self-effacing style, her natural instinct for consensus and her somewhat austere moral rectitude appeal to many. Times, Sunday Times Philosophers call it moral relativism; the rest of us call it hypocrisy. Times, Sunday Times Are we truly content to embrace moral relativism so casually? Times, Sunday Times Those who disagree are misled either by a warped view of history or a pernicious form of moral relativism. Times, Sunday Times The dominant philosophical framework of the postwar era has been moral relativism; the notion that there are no universal truths. Times, Sunday Times He also condemned the 'illusion' that moral relativism offered the key to peace. Times, Sunday Times It will be struck according to moral sensibilities that to a very great extent we all share, but should be careful about declaring too noisily. Times, Sunday Times At their best, novels engage our emotions and sympathies and expand moral sensibilities. Times, Sunday Times Sustainable change requires people to buy into a vision, into a story: it must connect with their emotions and moral sensibilities as well as their self-interest. Times, Sunday Times Definitions of what constitutes dance can depend on social and cultural norms and aesthetic, artistic and moral sensibilities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Perhaps the fans have taken a lead from the authorities, whose moral stance on these matters may best be described as ambivalent. Times, Sunday Times A taut little nail-biter, slightly marred by a dubious moral stance. Times, Sunday Times His moral stance gives him more say and makes him more influential (and disruptive) than he could ever hope to be if he sold out. Times, Sunday Times Instead of fronting up, or at least declining to answer through lack of knowledge, they adopted an unconvincing moral stance. Times, Sunday Times All nice people, quite rightly, are adopting the proper moral stance and expressing outrage and disgust at this affront to international law and justice. Times, Sunday Times I do not expect a high moral standard from him. Times,Sunday Times We risk turning a moral standard into a boundary marker. Christianity Today I support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to. Times, Sunday Times In many ways the moral standard of the village was very low, and it was a difficult place to improve. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Along with this, the university aims at producing students of high moral standard. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its moral standing in the eyes of the world rose overnight. Times, Sunday Times The world's banks have neither the appetite nor the moral standing to protest too loudly in public. Times, Sunday Times Socialist and a man of high moral standing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With that in mind, it sought to save those whom they believed to be of lower moral standing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As mentioned previously, people are viewed in good moral standing when they lead healthy lives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You can't make the case for the moral superiority of freedom while you are seeking trade deals that are totally devoid of moral content. Times, Sunday Times This phrase has the magical effect of transforming the most disgusting foodstuff into something palatable simply through the warm glow of moral superiority. Times, Sunday Times People were complacent about the moral superiority we had. Times, Sunday Times Few of us get it right - but indulging our moral superiority won't help any of us do it better. Times, Sunday Times I don't like the air of moral superiority they seem to feel. Times, Sunday Times Now to another moral tale. Times, Sunday Times There has modernly emerged a theory that her story consists of probably only a moral tale invented for edification. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These are ultimately moral tales and each story possesses the quality of a parable. The Times Literary Supplement All this lends the collection a cosiness reinforced by the fact that many of the pieces are, lightly, moral tales. Times, Sunday Times Some of the scenes related events in the life of the saint, while others are moral tales, for example, a deer battling a snake. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Can a church lawfully discriminate against an employee or applicant for employment on the basis of moral teachings? Christianity Today Employees who are dismissed for violating the church's moral teachings may argue that they were not adequately warned about this requirement. Christianity Today Their practices are focused on their moral teachings, body cultivation, and recitation of scriptures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It emphasizes moral teachings and etiquette more than textbook knowledge. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His moral teachings emphasized self-cultivation, emulation of moral exemplars, and the attainment of skilled judgment rather than knowledge of rules. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With high moral tone they have asserted their own mandate to oppose all tax rises and to shrink the government. Times, Sunday Times These are our lawmakers, meant to set the country's moral tone, braying like donkeys. The Sun But in the public arena a high moral tone obtained and, consequently, hypocrisy was rife. Times, Sunday Times It hits roughly the same moral tone as a mummers' play. Times, Sunday Times That's where the tension comes in: from our vague, never-stated belief that sports stars ought to set the moral tone of the nation and the world. Times, Sunday Times Slightly less than half of the born again adults (46%) believe in absolute moral truth. Christianity Today She believed in the metaphysical intuition of moral truth. The Times Literary Supplement The movie instructs about a high moral truth without preaching. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He saw their work as morally reprehensible, effectively a wasting of their talents through their failure to communicate moral truth to the masses. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Actors can not externalize their responsibility and freedom of will towards some moral truth in the world, virtuous people don't need to wait for some cognition to choose what's right. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But to go beyond momentary sympathy would turn the moral universe upside down. The Times Literary Supplement So long as 'the laws'; of my moral universe served as guardrails to keep me from crashing out of bounds, they were meaningful. Christianity Today From close up, you have a pint-sized moral universe, filled with telling observations on humanity's conduct. Times, Sunday Times The presence of these names, as well as the justice of the buildings' collapse, hint at the novel's moral universe. The Times Literary Supplement For the rest of us, it was like observing an inverted moral universe. Times, Sunday Times This debate has allowed anglophone philosophers who write about aesthetic and moral value to enrich the range of texts they consider. The Times Literary Supplement That was the case in the beginning, when sport prided itself on its moral value. Times, Sunday Times But they also cannot make moral value judgments, or act on intuition or deliberately miss. Times, Sunday Times And majority rule can have the positive moral value of engaging citizens in a common endeavor to promote the good of society. Christianity Today If there was one absolute to which the philosophes adhered as a whole, it was that of liberté: not an absolute moral value, but a basic human right. The Times Literary Supplement Though he behaved bravely during the attempted coup of 1981, this merciless biography gives him short shrift as an exemplar of moral virtue. Times, Sunday Times Secularists do not have a monopoly of modern moral virtue. Times, Sunday Times We love to present our natural tight-fistedness as some sort of moral virtue. Times, Sunday Times Even this proves too much for his moral virtue. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although cleanliness was a moral virtue, descriptions suggest that a surgeon was as likely to wash his hands after an operation as before. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her mind and moral vision in contrast gleam like stainless steel. Times, Sunday Times I don't think you can long have strong confessionalism, strong spirituality, and strong moral vision, without also having strong eschatology. Christianity Today He has a genuine moral vision of the world and has a strong view of the way the world ought to be. Times, Sunday Times His verses are a powerful moral vision. Times, Sunday Times The people undertake to abide by a moral code, pursue a moral vision and create a society built on justice, compassion and respect for human dignity. Times, Sunday Times The equation of spinal deformity with moral weakness was a gift to the propagandists. Times, Sunday Times Once we talked about it as moral weakness or failing. Times, Sunday Times They stated that illness and old age were greater causes of poverty than idleness and moral weakness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 People with hopes and dreams and moral weaknesses. Times, Sunday Times But as the failures continued their genuine moral weaknesses were revealed. Times, Sunday Times It was the threat to public health that we found to be 'repulsive', rather than the threat to public morals. Times, Sunday Times Once a class of major visionaries and dangerous corrupters of public morals, they have become straightforward movers of traffic. The Times Literary Supplement Is confidence in public morals damaged? Times, Sunday Times You can't adopt a firm stance on public morals in the hope of soliciting votes, while adopting a wide stance in public lavatories in the hope of soliciting blokes. Times, Sunday Times This isn't about policing public morals. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 道德上的, 寓意 Japanese: 道徳の, 教訓 |
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