| 单词 | chaste |
| 释义 | chaste 1. a. < chaste behavior > b. 2. a. < Galahad's chaste life > b. < chaste stars — Shakespeare > c. < his conversation is chaste — Ernest Dimnet > d. < the chaste and abstracted intellect of the scholar — Elinor Wylie > 3. a. archaic < her tastes were, however, too feminine and chaste ever to render her eccentric — E.G.Bulwer-Lytton > b. < a chaste meal > c. < a chaste border of conventionalized flowers > Synonyms: < all virtuous persons who hear this song whose lives are chaste and placid — Elinor Wylie > < she … withdrew to the chaste darkness of her own room where she knelt before a plaster virgin — Louis Bromfield > pure indicates avoidance of immoral action and lustful thoughts and desires < it may have been that … he had never known any woman, that he had been pure as a saint — Louis Bromfield > < as down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon … she seem'd a splendid angel … so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint — John Keats > modest stresses avoidance of anything brazen, bold, wanton, or suggestive in behavior, speech, or appearance < she had previously made a respectful virginlike curtsey to the gentleman, and her modest eyes gazed so perseveringly on the carpet that it was a wonder how she should have found an opportunity to see him — W.M.Thackeray > < to suggest that it [the infidelity of Antony] had been largely Octavia's own fault in dressing in so modest a way and behaving with such decorum — Robert Graves > decent indicates accord with conventions of what is seemly or proper in behavior or language < sex must be treated from the first as natural, delightful, and decent — Bertrand Russell > < after only a decent period of mourning, Mr. Murdock married Marie Antoinette O'Daniel — W.A.White > < filthy beyond all powers of decent expression — Leslie Stephen > |
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