propriety

n. 适当；礼节；得体

n.

礼貌；规矩；正当；合适

变形

复数：proprieties

英英释义

propriety[ prəu'praiəti ]

n.correct or appropriate behavior

同义词：propernesscorrectitude

词组短语

with propriety按照礼节；正当，适当

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

I doubt the propriety of doing so.
我怀疑这样做是否适当。

The students in our school can be admitted propriety by No.1 Middle School.
我校学生中考可被华师一高中部适当优惠录取。

In propriety of classification, however, the people of a country are not to be counted in its wealth.
然而，按照正当的分类，一个国家的人民不应算作这个国家的财富。

Ellen ignored all things contrary to her ideas of propriety and tried to teach Scarlett to do the same, but with poor success.
对于那些自认为不正当的事情爱伦总是不屑一顾，并且想教导思嘉也这样做，可是没有多大效果。

I doubt the propriety of such a remark.
我怀疑这样的话是否得体。

You can trust John to behave with perfect propriety.
你可以相信约翰的行为会完全得体。

China is a country of courtesy and propriety.
中华民族是个讲究礼仪的国家。

Her ardent sense of propriety fears that Bertha, in bed, might not be costumed decorously enough for the visit of a clerical gentleman.
她那强烈的礼仪感使她担心卧床的伯莎衣饰不整，不适合接待一位圣职人员的来访。

权威例句

propriety

propriety: see proper

propriety (n.)

mid-15c., "proper character, disposition," from Old French proprieté "individuality, peculiarity; property" (12c.), from Latin proprietatem (nominative proprietas) "appropriateness," also "ownership" (see property). Meaning "fitness, appropriateness" is attested from 1610s; sense of "conformity to good manners" is from 1782.

1. The press is overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and decency.

新闻界在各个方面都在逾越明显的礼节和得体界限。

2. Will the propriety and pragmatism that got her there keep her from becoming the mogul she wants to be?

让她誉满天下的得体和实用主义会阻碍她成为显要人物吗。

3. This was supposed to be a complete spiritual renewal of the nation, through a modernized version of traditional Confucian values, such as propriety, righteousness, and loyalty.

通过传授现代版的儒家传统思想的价值观，包括礼节、正义感和忠诚，这次运动被认为是这个国家一次彻底的革新。

4. Java Connector Architecture (JCA) provides a non-propriety framework for creating a J2EE adaptive component to your application.

Java连接器体系架构（JCA）为您的应用程序创建J2EE兼容组件提供了非适当的框架。

5. You should stand up greeting the guests with propriety.

按照礼节你应该站起来接待客人。

6. He who laughs at the same joke, and laughs along with me, cannot well deny the propriety of my laughter.

如果他和我一样感觉某个笑话是好笑的，和我一起大笑，他就不会否认我的笑声是合理的。

7. The little sympathy which we feel with bodily pain is the foundation of the propriety of constancy and patience in enduring it.

因为我们很少同情身体上的疼痛，所以认为对于疼痛坚持不屈不挠的忍耐是正确的。

8. Each supplier responds with the product information, including the price, quantity, and other propriety product information.

各供应商作出反应，提供相应的产品信息，包括价格、数量和其它产品信息。

9. It is difficult to integrate development processes that ship in their own propriety format: Every book and publication presents method content and processes that use different formats.

集成以只适于它们自己的格式导入的开发过程是困难的：每本书或出版物中的方法内容和过程都以不同格式出现。

10. In this data integration level, the organization starts from propriety and ad hoc integration, rendering the architecture brittle in the face of change.

在此数据集成级别，组织从适当的临时集成开始，当遇到更改时，体系结构会很脆弱。

11. Some are powered by the likes of Google, some are propriety.

有些人喜欢采用的谷歌有些是妥当。

12. Mr. Darcy with grave propriety requested to be allowed the honour of her hand; but in vain.

达西先生非常有礼貌地要求她赏光，跟他跳一场，可是他白白要求了。

13. The new constitution was subsequently enforced through somewhat questionable means, as challenges were made in the Supreme Court on the propriety of its ratification.

因此新宪法是通过一些值得质疑的手段强制执行的，在最高法院上就提出了对于批准宪法修正的合理性质疑。

14. The Western sense of propriety gets thrown to wind, and what we are left with is . . .

西方的礼节意识随风消逝，而留给我们的是……

15. So Chinese-American Locke would seem to be embodying virtues of frugality and propriety that, in a different era, might have been associated with Confucian scholar-bureaucrats.

如此看来，华裔美国人骆家辉体现的是一种勤俭和尊礼的美德，这种美德，在一个不同的时代，可以和中国孔教的士大夫操守相联系。

16. Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her.

至于马厩，只要有个棚子就行。随后埃丽诺大胆地表示，从一个自己并不了解、或者至少是最近才了解的男人那里接受礼物，她怀疑是否恰当。

17. Her beret and silk scarf combination is as legendary as it is simple, and the beribboned fedoras she wore on several heists gave her a sense of propriety in improper circumstances.

她的贝雷帽和丝巾搭配既简洁又具有传奇色彩。她在多次抢劫中所戴的饰有缎带的浅顶软呢帽在不适宜的场合中散发出一种适宜感。

18. For thousands of years the values of propriety, righteousness, integrity, and honour as advocated in Confucianism have well taken root in Eastern societies.

儒家思想也提倡礼义廉耻，这种思想有几千年的历史，在东方社会根深蒂固。

19. She is preternaturally cautious, a consequence of her Methodist propriety and 20 years of insane public scrutiny.

卫理公会训诫以及20年的强大公众监督，使得克林顿尤为谨慎小心。

20. She is preternaturally cautious, a consequence of her Methodist propriety and 20 years of insane public scrutiny.

卫理公会训诫以及20年的强大公众监督，使得克林顿尤为谨慎小心。