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Virtuous describes someone who behaves in a morally good way - honest, kind, disciplined, doing the right thing even when it's hard. It can sound a bit old-fashioned or very serious, like the word 'virtue' itself, which means moral goodness. You might also hear the phrase 'virtuous circle' (or 'virtuous cycle') - a situation where one good thing leads to another good thing, and so on, getting better and better - the opposite of a 'vicious circle', where bad things keep leading to more bad things.
品德高尚的;有美德的
組成virtue + -ous (an ending meaning 'full of' or 'having the quality of') - full of virtue.
同家族的字
- virtuethe base noun - moral goodness, or a specific good quality a person has
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。
virtuousadj/ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəs/
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Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
- Successful communities need strong, selfless leaders and a virtuous people.
- Her virtuous, pale-blue, saucerlike eyes flooded with leviathan tears on unexpected occasions and made Yossarian mad.
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。