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A right-minded person has opinions and manners that the speaker thinks are decent and proper. You meet it in newspapers and in rather formal English: every right-minded citizen. Though actually, there is no exam for this. It nearly always means thinks the way I approve of. The same person can be right-minded to one family and stubborn to another. It is a warm badge from inside a group, not a scientific fact. Young people rarely say it in chat.
正派的;思想端正的(是說話者眼中的「觀念正確」,不是考卷標準)
組成right (proper, decent) + minded (having that kind of mind).
同家族的字
- open-mindedsame -minded pattern: having that kind of mind
- like-mindedsame -minded pattern
- right-thinkingnearly the same idea, with thinking instead of minded
原始詞典資料2 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。
right-mindedadj
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Sane; clear-thinking.
- Right-minded people do not throw away their lives because trivial insults occur.
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Decent; morally upright.
- Surely all right-minded people agree that bigamy is wrong.
- Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.
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。