A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
体面
Respectability
Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
现在我已经六十多岁了，我开始追求体面了。
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
白发苍苍的头上开始笼罩着一层体面的阴影。
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
男人不得不做一些非常卑鄙的事来保持他们的体面。
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
上帝已经被取代了，就像他在整个西方所做的那样，被尊重和空调所取代。
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
一个被允许不尊重父母的孩子不会真正尊重任何人。
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
在普通的教堂里，它被体面所抑制，被一种想要表现得比我们实际更好的愿望所抑制。
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
体面必须是一种比它的反面更令人筋疲力尽的状态来维持。那些成功的人似乎需要充足的睡眠。