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Respectable describes someone or something considered proper, honest, and deserving of respect by normal social standards, like a respectable job or respectable behavior. , it can also just mean 'good enough' or decent in amount or quality — a respectable score, even if it's not .
值得尊敬的;(口語)還不錯的、像樣的
組成respect (a feeling of admiration, or treating someone well) + able (deserving or capable of).
原始詞典資料4 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。
respectableadj[ɹɪˈspɛk.tə.bl̩]
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Deserving respect.
- His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.
- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
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Decent; satisfactory.
- Turn up to the interview wearing something respectable. She plays a respectable game of chess. He got a respectable B+ on his last exam.
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Moderately well-to-do.
respectablenoun[ɹɪˈspɛk.tə.bl̩]
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A person who is respectable.
- They forced their way into the meetings called by the respectables; and the respectables disappeared. It was of their own respectable good pleasure that they withdrew.
- The tensions between the "respectables" and the "gay spoilers"
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。