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Decency Di:Snsi N.正派,端庄 英 N 正派,端庄(Quality Respectable People

单词 decency
音标 ['di:snsi]
解释 n.正派,端庄
红宝书 【英】 n. 正派,端庄(quality of being respectable people would wish)
【例】 an offence against decency
字源 decency (n.)
1560s, "appropriateness," from Latin decentia "comeliness, decency," from decentem "becoming, fitting" (see decent). Meaning "modesty" (i.e. "appropriateness to standards of society") is from 1630s.
不择手段背单词
趣味全助记 【记】decent

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