A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
受人尊敬
Respectable
In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
卡米拉住在她那体面人家的怀里。
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
我很早就觉得自己不会成为一个受人尊敬的公民。
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
如果你能把生意做得足够大,那是值得尊敬的。
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
我认为家庭是世界上最荒唐、最不体面的事情发生的地方。
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
每一种恶行都曾是一种美德,并可能再次受到尊敬,就像战争时期的仇恨会受到尊敬一样。
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
当懦弱变得可敬时,它的追随者无论来自弱者还是强者都是数不胜数的;它很容易成为一种时尚。
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
我所属的那些体面的圈子里,那个体面的圈子里的所有人,那个我不知道安全的价值的圈子,都在反对我,他们知道,一旦失去或抛弃安全,就没有什么机会来代替它了。
I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I'm not respectable, I'm going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.
在过去的几年里,我做过很多采访,实际上,我已经开始了一系列的问题,问一个作家会很有趣,但没有一个可敬的采访者会问这些问题。由于我不受人尊敬,我打算开始采访一些我认识的作家,只是为了好玩。