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单词 virtue
释义
virtuevir‧tue /ˈvɜːtʃuː $ ˈvɜːr-/ ●●○ W3 noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINvirtue
Origin:
1100-1200 Old French virtu, from Latin virtus ‘strength, virtue’, from vir ‘man’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Among their many virtues, they are always direct and honest.
  • heroic virtues
  • Women have often been used as symbols of virtue and nobility.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Such a conclusion to a hunting trip is evidence that the man is endowed with proper male virtue.
  • They believed in the virtues of culture, civilization and reason.
  • They forget all the old virtues, which weren't real virtues anyway.
  • Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
a good feature that something has, which makes it better, more useful etc than other things: · The great advantage of digital cameras is that there is no film to process.
a feature of something that has a good effect on people’s lives: · Regular exercise has many benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease.
a good feature that something has, which you consider when you are deciding whether it is the best choice: · The committee will consider the merits of the proposals.· The merits and demerits of (=the good and bad features of)alternative funding systems were widely discussed in the newspapers.· The chairman saw no great merit in this suggestion (=he did not think that it was a good idea).
an advantage that makes you believe that something is a good thing: · They believed in the virtues of culture, civilization, and reason.· He’s always extolling the virtues of hard work (=saying that hard work is a good thing).
especially spoken used when mentioning a good feature of something. This phrase is rather informal and you should not use it in formal essays: · The good thing about cycling is that you don’t have to worry about getting stuck in a traffic jam.
used when you want to emphasize that something has a very good or useful feature: · The beauty of the plan is that it is so simple.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 Wilkins is now extolling (=praising very much)the virtues of organic farming.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 a speech extolling the merits of free enterprise
 a paragon of virtue
 a politician preaching the virtues of a free market
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· If we're selling it, we'd better point out that it's a starting-point for civic virtue.· Is the kind of thinking required for scientific experimentation the same kind required for civic virtue?· Finally, the citizen must, if true to his quality, be possessed of some civic virtue.· The problem here is how can social cohesion and civic virtue be promoted?
· Sadly, morals and behaviour ashore had deteriorated too with more drunks and ladies of easy virtue in evidence.
· So there were great virtues in decentralisation and democratic accountability at all levels in any society.· The great virtue of mail-in elections, according to their promoters, is that they make voting as easy as possible.· But what a great virtue I had made of avoiding their names these last few years.· Judges themselves claim this as their great virtue and only occasionally is it seen to be departed from.· A hands-off approach to macroeconomic management has the great virtue of leaving both hands free for microeconomic tasks.· In other contexts, Terkel's great virtue is his ability to leave subjects rich and ravelled.· But what price humaneness, that great virtue of the Enlightenment, if animals were mere things?
· There's no moral virtue in the truth of most of our true beliefs.· What Phokylides was saying is that human virtue is moral virtue.· Was it, perhaps, that they were of higher moral virtue than other men?· Healthy development in women was thus signified by an attachment to their prescribed sphere and by the manifestation of moral virtue.
· Many convey in the physical appearance of their subjects the traditional Roman virtues of austerity and respect for authority.
VERB
· The following speech extols the virtues of order and degree.· The appraiser went on for some time, extolling the virtues of the scholarship.· But now is not the time to be extolling the virtues of Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism.· At news conferences in each town, he dutifully steps to the podium and extols the virtues of such a noteworthy matchup.· The tutor extols the virtues of this approach and you, of course, agree.· We have had several letters from readers extolling the virtues of ponies, and how many are having enormous fun with them.· Since the war, each time the Conservative Party has come into power it has extolled the virtues of the market.· This man drinks alone, perhaps because he has driven away all his companions by extolling the virtues of his bank.
· A New World makes many virtues out of small things.· But Simon does not merely make a virtue of necessity.· Her faults are my faults: her virtues I must make my virtues.· Would it be so hard to make a simple virtue out of this bizarre necessity?· What I did was to make a virtue of my misery.· Limited government makes virtue possible by creating a framework for free action.· Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention.· Unable to face their fate, they make of it a virtue.
· He may preach the virtues of an empty bank account, but Damon is fairly obsessed with filling his own.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • I am Claire's aunt by virtue of marriage.
  • And never once did I find myself the center of collective stares, simply by virtue of being a gaijin.
  • But is it true that we learn just by virtue of being busy and having lots of experiences?
  • Catholicism, however gripped the masses by virtue of its incense, its ritual, all quite arbitrary, compulsion without purpose.
  • Madeira was transformed into an offshore centre by virtue of legislation enacted in 1986.
  • Prominent individuals were often prominent by virtue of the groups of which they were leaders.
► make a virtue of something
  • But Simon does not merely make a virtue of necessity.
  • But since response from ministers by the 1840s was extremely circumspect the reformers were probably making a virtue of necessity.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Sadly, morals and behaviour ashore had deteriorated too with more drunks and ladies of easy virtue in evidence.
  • Mr. Howard I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman is citing Lambeth council as a model of efficiency and good practice.
  • The police, when they arrived, were models of efficiency and solicitude.
1[uncountable] formal moral goodness of character and behaviour OPP  vice:  Women have often been used as symbols of virtue.2[countable] a particular good quality in someone’s character OPP  vice:  Among her many virtues are loyalty, courage, and truthfulness.3[countable, uncountable] an advantage that makes something better or more useful than something elsevirtue of Adam Smith believed in the virtues of free trade. Wilkins is now extolling (=praising very much) the virtues of organic farming.► see thesaurus at advantage4by virtue of something formal by means of, or as a result of something:  She became a British resident by virtue of her marriage.5make a virtue of something to get an advantage from a situation that you cannot change, usually a bad one:  She made a virtue of her acting limitations by joking about them.6make a virtue of necessity to get an advantage from doing something that you have to do, or to pretend that you are doing it willingly7[uncountable] old use the state of not having with someone, or not having sex with anyone except your husband
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