Propriety

(noun.) correct or appropriate behavior.

编辑:兰尼

• Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He received the communication with perfect calmness, and acquiesced in its propriety. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Before the winter was far advanced, it is actually on record that Emmy took a night and received company with great propriety and modesty. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Well, then Uncle and Aunt were there to play propriety. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• She had as firm a belief in the sweetness and propriety of his manners as she could possibly have had if he had been Lord Chamberlain. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• On the 1st of November I suggested to Sherman, and also asked his views thereon, the propriety of destroying Hood before he started on his campaign. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• No other house can receive her with propriety but yours. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My strict sense of propriety restores it (by the hands of my wife) to its place on the writer's table. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I'm going, so you needn't try to preach propriety, for you can't do it, Jo. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• As for me, my sense of propriety was completely bewildered. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In short, Topsy soon made the household understand the propriety of letting her alone; and she was let alone, accordingly. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Regardless of decorum, you are prepared to fly in the face of propriety. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Even admitting that the size and weight of his low-tension conductors necessitated putting them underground, this argues nothing against the propriety and sanity of his methods. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I only doubt--' 'The propriety of my leaving it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• With a few lessons, she had learned to do the proprieties of Miss Ophelia's chamber in a way with which even that particular lady could find no fault. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It was somehow understood, as a secret article in the state proprieties of Podsnappery that nothing must be said about the day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mr. and Mrs. Elton appeared; and all the smiles and the proprieties passed. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

编辑:玛杰里