喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can think of 'moral' as everything that lives on the map of right and wrong — the inner sense that tells good behaviour from bad. From that one map come the adjective (to do with right and wrong, or a person who lives by it), the noun 'morals' (a person's own standards), and the 'moral' of a story (the right-and-wrong lesson it leaves you with).

可以想成 moral 都活在一張「是非對錯」的地圖上：那把能分辨好行為與壞行為的內在尺。從這一張地圖長出三類用法——…更多收起可以想成 moral 都活在一張「是非對錯」的地圖上：那把能分辨好行為與壞行為的內在尺。從這一張地圖長出三類用法——形容詞（與對錯有關的，或一個照著對錯做人的人）、名詞 morals（一個人自己的是非標準）、以及一個故事的 moral（它留給你的那個對錯教訓）。

原始詞典資料15 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。

Moralname詞源 1

  • 1

    A surname from Spanish.

Moralname詞源 2

  • 1

    A township in Shelby County, Indiana, United States.

moraladj/ˈmɒɹəl/

  • 1

    Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially conforming to principles of rectitude.

    • moral judgments; a moral poem
    • a moral obligation
  • 2

    Conforming to a given standard of right behaviour.

    • a moral action
  • 3

    Being sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.

    • The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
  • 4

    Capable of right and wrong action.

    • a moral agent
  • 5

    Probable but not proved.

    • a moral certainty
  • 6

    Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.

    • a moral victory; moral support

moralnoun/ˈmɒɹəl/

  • 1

    The ethical significance or practical lesson.

    • The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
    • We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
  • 2

    Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.

    • a candidate with strong morals
  • 3

    A depiction of good or heroic actions.

  • 4

    obsoleteA morality play.

  • 5

    datedslangA moral certainty.

    • "You'd better not collar anything now, because it's a moral that old Antonio would nip out behind one of those cases."
    • "One thing," added George, after the peculiarities of the situation had been sufficiently admitted, "it's going to be the last time I'm mixed up in what isn't strictly on the level. If we get clear this once with anything like tidy, old girl, it'll be that little cottage with the pigs and poultry for a moral."
  • 6

    datedslangAn exact counterpart.

moralverb/ˈmɒɹəl/

  • 1

    To moralize.

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。