| 单词 | fidelity |
| 释义 | fi·del·i·ty 1. a. b. 2. obsolete 3. a. b. < a substory plant of the beech-maple community with a 90 percent fidelity > — compare exclusive 1b Synonyms: < a profound reverence for and fidelity to the truth, sometimes almost amounting to fanaticism — H.L.Mencken > < the oath which might be exacted — that of fidelity to the constitution — is prescribed — John Marshall > < it is equally certain, without any groundless aspersion of Harriet's conjugal fidelity, that the fault was not Shelley's — Richard Garnett †1906 > allegiance suggests adherence as that of medieval vassal to his lord or of a modern free citizen to his country < I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands — Francis Bellamy > < to exclude unnaturalized foreigners; the latter forming no part of the sovereignty, owing it no allegiance, and therefore under no obligation to defend it — R.B.Taney > < he claims no political allegiance, is a member of the bipartisan National Committee on Strengthening Congress — Current Biography > fealty implies a strict fidelity acknowledged and cherished by the individual < abolitionism, to which I swore fealty — J.R.Lowell > < constant in fealty to his faith, extracting fresh allegiance — W.O.Clough > < profoundly grateful and emboldened by their comradeship and their fealty — A.E.Stevenson †1965 > loyalty may imply steadfast and reliable personal attachment; in today's English it is taken to indicate absence of anything treasonable or subversive < the loyalties which lead men to go to war — Virginia Woolf > < western man subordinated religious loyalties to national ones — Isaac Deutscher > < loyalty in these terms is allegiance to the democratic way of life, to the process or system that welcomes into free competition even the most loathsome ideas — New Republic > devotion may indicate zealous self-dedication and ardent attachment < in the Declaration of the Rights of Man adopted amid swirling revolution in 1789, France rose to a height of devotion to human liberties from which she has never receded — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > < he loved with a passionate intensity of devotion the greatness of Roman traditions, and the memory of the mighty dead — Agnes Repplier > < a devotion to the welfare of children, a complete absorption in the business of parenthood, and a willingness not only to subordinate all other interests to those of the offspring, but, if necessary, to lay down life itself upon the altar of family duty — J.W.Krutch > piety applies to fidelity to spiritual or natural obligations < piety is the knowledge and worship of the gods: it consists in forming an adequate conception of them and imitating their perfection — Frank Thilly > < the principle of filial piety, which has existed throughout the world and is embodied in the Fifth Commandment — Bertrand Russell > |
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