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Correctitude is the state of behaving in a very proper way — the right clothes, the right manners, the right words, nothing out of line. It is a rare, slightly old-fashioned noun. When it appears, there is often a raised in it: not just “good manners,” but a stiffness, a person who is almost too correct. You would not ask for “more correctitude” in daily life. You might find it in a novel or a dry joke about someone who never puts a foot wrong, and perhaps never has much fun either. Though actually, it is built in a simple way from correct, so the meaning is not mysterious; it is only that almost nobody reaches for this noun any more. Rectitude is the cousin you are more likely to meet, and that one is about moral uprightness, not table manners.
舉止端正、過分循規蹈矩(罕見、老派,常帶一點「正經過頭」的味道)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
correctitudenoun
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The quality of being correct
- Leopold himself must have envied such perfect correctitude; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen.
- And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude?"
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。