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virtuous

英['vɜːtjʊəs;-tʃʊəs] 美['vɝtʃuəs]
  • adj. 善良的;有道德的;贞洁的;正直的;有效力的

英英释意


1. of moral excellence;
"a genuinely good person"
"a just cause"
"an upright and respectable man"
"the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass
2. morally excellent
3. behaving according to standards of what is right or just;
"led a virtuous (or moral) life"
4. in a state of sexual virginity;
"pure and vestal modesty"
"a spinster or virgin lady"
"men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"