moral的意思和读音

moral

: [ˈmɔrəl] : [ˈmɒrəl]

n.

adj.

morals  

adj.+n.moral support,moral ground,moral force,moral duty,moral outrage

adj.immoral,physical,practical

moraladj.

1.[obn]concerned with principles of right and wrong behaviour

a moral issue/dilemma/question

traditional moral values

a decline in moral standards

moral philosophy

a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense

The newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.

2.[obn]based on your own sense of what is right and fair, not on legal rights or duties

moral responsibility/duty

Governments have at least a moral obligation to answer these questions.

The job was to call on all her diplomatic skills and moral courage(= the courage to do what you think is right) .

3.following the standards of behaviour considered acceptable and right by most people

He led a very moral life.

a very moral person

4.[obn]able to understand the difference between right and wrong

Children are not naturally moral beings.

IDMtake, claim, seize, etc. the moral high groundto claim that your side of an argument is morally better than your opponents' side; to argue in a way that makes your side seem morally bettern.

1.[pl]standards or principles of good behaviour, especially in matters of sexual relationships

Young people these days have no morals.

The play was considered an affront to public morals .

a woman of loose morals(= with a low standard of sexual behaviour)

2.[c]a practical lesson that a story, an event or an experience teaches you

And the moral is that crime doesn't pay.

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adj.1.relating to right and wrong and the way that people should behave; based on what you believe is right instead of what the law or rules say is right; a moral person always tries to behave in the right way

n.1.principles of right or wrong behavior that are generally accepted by a society2.something that you can learn from a story or an experience

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1.Yet any moral superiority New Yorkers may feel should be tempered by the behaviour of the American embassy in London.使

2.In Celia's view, it was one more warning that the pharmaceutical business should accept moral obligation as well as legal ones.西

3.It was not a pleasant commentary on his own character and degree of moral stamina, to say the least.

4.He was not a man to feel any strong moral indignation even on account of trespasses against himself.

5.One of the authors concluded part of our moral behavior is grounded into a specific part of our brains.

6.He said he believed the charter represented the realities of the world and the moral code of the country.

7.Yet the syllabus for the Moral Education Center seems to lack a few essentials for meeting today's global super-rich.

8.She was as tired as I was of our side getting beat and treating defeat as evidence of moral virtue and superiority.

9.but prominent ecclesiastics, with some exceptions, continued to be men of inflexible moral principles.

10.Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existence for him.使