decency

I know you don't like him, but at least have the decency to be polite to him in public.

我知道你不喜欢他，但至少在公共场合下表现出有礼貌的庄重神情。

Developers with even a bit of decency have pushed back or even left projects over this sort of behavior.

懂得些许礼数的开发人员大都因为这类行为而撤出或离开项目。

"I thought he would show some more human decency in admitting he made a mistake, " he said Monday. "We didn't really see that. "

“我以为他会在承认自己犯错时表现出更多的人类尊严”他在周一说，“我们没有看到这一点。”

She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time. Don't you think?

她不应当在吃晚饭时给他打电话。她应该懂得点体面，你说对吗？

"Jesus, Tommy, " I said, feeling I had to say something, out of common decency.

我说道。仅仅出于礼貌，我也觉得不得不说点什么。

I accepted that all above me was all that was fine and noble and gracious, all that gave decency and dignity to life.

我承认，上流社会的生活是美好的，高贵的，优雅的，它给了生命体面和尊严。

He was shrewd after his kind, and yet there was enough decency in the man to stop him from making any effectual protest.

他有他的精明之处，可是这个人很好面子，这妨碍了他提出任何有力的抗议。

Arthur: But to be a man, is to have the heart of man. Integrity, decency , sympathy.

但是作为人，是要有人的心灵。诚实，正直，有同情心。

It should have been a joyous occasion, a time to celebrate a program that has brought dignity and decency to the lives of older Americans.

这本来应该是一个欢乐的时刻，一个庆贺这个给年长的美国人带来尊严与体面的计划的时刻。

Perhaps he had decided that they had no future together. But surely he would have the decency to tell her to her face.

也许，他已下了决心对他们的未来感到了绝望，可他一定会亲自告诉她。

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.

我能看见被称作服装的丝绸服装，如果这些料子没有把人的身体掩藏起来的话，甚至没有把某人的颓废掩藏起来的话。

Since she is your aunt by law, it would be only common decency to ask her to the wedding.

在法律上她还是你的婶婶，所以邀请她参加婚礼也不失为一个合乎礼仪的举措。

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。

They are just a nod to public decency, a frilly piece of tokenism that first emerged in Thirties strip clubs.

它们只是在公众面前展示雅观的产物，是首先出现于30年代的脱衣俱乐部中的象征性的一小块布。

Seriously, the only saving grace of this film is that the directors had the decency to put hot chicks in front of the camera.

事实上，这部电影唯一持有的一点温柔就是导演得体地把美女辣妹放在了镜头前。

Even more than Obama's intelligence and personal charm, what sealed Michelle's love for him was his sense of decency and compassion.

即便是奥巴马的智慧和个人魅力她也不感兴趣，是奥巴马的体面和同情心偷走了米歇尔对他的爱。

It violates Chinese ideas of propriety, not to say of decency, in a great variety of ways.

它在许多方面违反了中国的关于恰当得体的观念，更谈不上合乎礼仪了。

On the contrary, the better his reputation for integrity, honesty, and decency, the better is chances of victory will be in the long run.

在相反者身上，比较好的他名誉为正直，诚实和得体，愈比较好是胜利的机会将会是最后。

but as a human being, you simply cannot do so and retain any sort of basicsanity or decency.

但作为一个人类，你根本无法这样做，还要保留任何基本的明智或体面。

We admire decency and we despise death but even the mountains seem to shift in the space of a night.

我们赞赏端庄大方，我们藐视死亡，可是连高山都会一夜之间挪了窝。