decency

Overcoming every reluctance and instinctive decency, he had let himself consider sex.

尽管出于本性的正直, 他一万个不情愿这样想,但还是忍不住去考虑性的问题.

You should have the decency to apologize for what you did.

你应该讲点礼貌,为你所做的事道歉.

Her behaviour showed a total lack of common decency .

她的举止显示她连起码的礼节都不懂。

Surely if the woman had any decency at all, she'd have withdrawn at once.

当然如果这个女人懂点礼节的话，她会马上离开。

He is a man of decency.

他为人正派.

It was an affront to common decency.

这是对社会礼仪的公然冒犯.

On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity. It was an uncommon lapse.

星期五那天他的表现既不得体，又有失尊严。如此失态非常少有。

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。

It is a mockery of human decency to call these people'guests '.

把这些人称为“客人 ” 真是不知羞耻.

His sense of decency forced him to resign.

他顾及颜面，不得不辞了职。

He was a man of decency and good judgment.

他是一个正派的、判断力很强的人.

Governments are often drawn into disputes about matters of public taste and decency.

政府经常被拉入到有关公众品位和社会风化问题的争论中.

See all that tells me there's still a shred of decency left inside you.

这一切告诉我,你还有一点良心.

Vice breaks in at the breaches of decency.

当廉耻丧失的时候,罪恶就会冲进来.

Having children without getting married is an offence against decency.

渔民们自发地组织起来共同对抗渔霸.

His sense of decency and fair play made him refuse the offer.

他的正直感和公平竞争意识使他拒绝了这一提议.

They showed a shameless disrespect for human rights and the norms of human decency.

他们无耻地蔑视人权和人类尊严的准则.

It is common decency to give your seat to anyone in greater need.

给更有需要的人让座是最起码的礼貌。

Amid the welcome confusion of cups and cakes a certain physical decency established itself.

递茶杯、传蛋糕所造成的忙乱大受欢迎,在忙乱之中建立了一种有形的体统.

This novel was widely condemned as an offence to public decency.

这本小说被公认为伤风败俗.

He had the decency to admit his error.

他承认了自己的错误,真是会做人.

Not to neglect decency, or cleanliness, for fear of falling into Nastiness.

不可忽略体面 、 清洁, 否则会赃的不堪.

In her profligate life, she lost all sense of decency.

在她放荡的生活中, 她完全丧失了一个正常人的理智.

A journalist should always live up to the ideals of truth, decency, and justice.

记者必须始终践行真实 、 正直 、 正义的理想.

Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.

你的行为有伤风化.

He hoped that for once the individual he referred to would decency to restrain himself.

他希望这一回他提到的那个人能够自尊自爱一些,克制一下自己.

To steal something of sentimental value shows a total lack of common decency.

偷盗具有情感价值的东西说明这个人连最起码的行为准则都彻底失去了.

Though for the sake of decency I had to offer it to her also.

然而为了礼貌的关系,我也不得不给她.