Decorum

(noun.) propriety in manners and conduct.

校对:伍德罗

• The decorum or indecorum of a quality, with regard to the age, or character, or station, contributes also to its praise or blame. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• In all points of decorum _your_ conduct must be law to the rest of the party. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Regardless of decorum, you are prepared to fly in the face of propriety. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• With the old, he had another part to play, which, when needful, he could sustain with great decorum. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Sir Pitt that pattern of decorum, Sir Pitt who had led off at missionary meetings--he never for one moment thought of not going too. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And with good right may they go before us--forget not, said the Prior Aymer, the superior decency and decorum of their manners. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It is the only means of maintaining that distance which the reserve of English manners and the decorum of English families exact. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Such was our daily life on board the ship--solemnity, decorum, dinner, dominoes, devotions, slander. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• His sense of decorum is strict. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Mr. Hawley's mode of speech, even when public decorum repressed his awful language, was formidable in its curtness and self-possession. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This decorum depends, in a great measure, upon experience. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Pray let us proceed with more decorum. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Sir, said Mr. Shelby, if you wish to communicate with me, you must observe something of the decorum of a gentleman. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.

编辑:利拉