rectitude
rectitude 英 [ˈrektɪtju:d] 美 [ˈrektɪtud]
n. 公正；诚实；清廉
名词复数:rectitudes
- Rectitude refers to behavior that is correct, upright and honorable. You have moral rectitude if you refuse to be involved with a plan that some kids in your class have to cheat on a test.
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- n. 公正；诚实；清廉
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1. IT WAS a rare victory for fiscal rectitude.
这是财政清廉的一个罕见的胜利。
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2. Speaking candidly to Playboy of his lust for women other than his wife, he endorsed a new standard of sexual openness while simultaneously upholding a model of sexual rectitude.
他坦率地对《花花公子》说,他对其他女人比对妻子更有兴趣,他赞成一种公开的性行为标准,同时也支持诚实的性行为模式。
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3. The public mood in the US has also been shifting as the Republicans score points with calls for a return to fiscal rectitude.
由于共和党因为呼唤回归财务清廉得分，美国公众情绪也被转移。
- rectitude (n.) early 15c., "quality of being straight," from Middle French rectitude (14c.), from Late Latin rectitudinem (nominative rectitudo) "straightness, uprightness," from Latin rectus "straight" (from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," with derivatives meaning "to direct in a straight line"). Sense of "upright in conduct or character" is from 1530s.
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