名词
1. He didn''t even have the decency to call.
他不懂情理，连个电话都不打。
2. decency什么意思
2. We must observe the decencies.
我们一定要遵守规矩。
3. 公共查询·英语单词
3. She had the decency to admit her error.
她气量大，承认了自己的错误。
1. decency
1. 庄重：他表示,一些学术界的朋友认为市场改革毁灭了中国的道德架构,但我认为这次显示情况并非如此,中国人基本的庄重(decency)和同情心并没有被个人主义击败.
2. decency什么意思
2. 得体：而传统主义者,包括自由主义的传统主义者,针锋相对地指出,某些调节个人选择的核心原则 和美德对于维持社会凝聚和得体(decency)是根本性的,为什么就不能使法律、公共教育、法官和陪审团偏向它们?
1. 合宜;得体;正派;合乎礼仪
Decency is the quality of following accepted moral standards.
e.g. Unfortunately, on Friday night he showed neither decency nor dignity...
不幸的是，周五晚上他表现得既不得体，也不庄重。
e.g. His sense of decency forced him to resign.
他顾及颜面，不得不辞了职。
2. （出于礼貌）应该做（但没做）…
If you say that someone did not have the decency to do something, you are criticizing them because there was a particular action which they did not do but which you believe they ought to have done.
e.g. Nobody had the decency to inform me of what was planned.
竟然没有一个人最起码地通知我一声计划了些什么。
noun
1. the quality of being polite and respectable
2. the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality