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Dishonourable describes a person, an act, or a way of behaving that is not morally right — not just or , but something that brings shame. If conduct is dishonourable, decent people would not respect it: breaking a promise for money, leaving friends in danger to save yourself, cheating in a way that stains your name. It is a heavy, rather formal word. You hear it in speeches, in history, in the army and the law, more than at the dinner table. A child who forgets homework is not dishonourable; a leader who sells out the people might be. British English keeps the u (honour / dishonourable); American English dishonorable. Same word, same weight. Though actually, people sometimes throw it around in a fight to sound grand, when they only mean “I don’t like what you did.” The tidy meaning is moral shame, not mere dislike.
不光彩的;可恥的;不名譽的(英式拼法;美式作 dishonorable)
組成dis- (the opposite of) + honour (a good name, moral respect) + -able (that can be described that way): not worthy of honour.
同家族的字
- honourthe good name this word takes away (US: honor)
- honourablethe opposite adjective
- dishonourthe noun or verb for that loss of respect
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。
dishonourableadj
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British standard spelling of dishonorable.
- He adhered to the forms of his religion rather because he felt it would be dishonourable to change that of his fathers, than from any rational or sincere belief of its mysterious doctrines.
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。