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respectability

/ɹɪˌspɛktəˈbɪlɪti/ 名词 C2

中文: 体面、可敬

  1. The quality of being respectable. (uncountable)
  2. The class of respectable people. (uncountable)

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Collins’s respectability, and Charlotte’s prudent, steady character.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第156页 · B2
Darcy himself need not disdain, and respectability which he will probably never reach.” When she thought of her mother, indeed, her confidence gave way a little; but she would not allow that any objections _there_ had material weight with Mr.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第217页 · B2
Our importance, our respectability in the world, must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia’s character.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第261页 · B2
But she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents--talents which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第267页 · B2

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