- [uncountable]
principles relating to right and wrong or good and bad behaviour 道德；道德准则；道义 Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesc1She criticized politicians' standards of personal morality. 她批评了政客们的个人道德标准。 Should governments be legislating morality? 政府应该给道德立法吗？ efforts to strengthen traditional morality 加强传统道德观念的努力 people who wish to impose their morality on other people 希望将自身道德观念强加给他人的人们 A stable society relies on both private and public morality. 一个稳定的社会既依赖于私人道德，也依赖于公共道德。 Do you think standards of morality are falling? 你认为道德标准在下降吗？ He seems to have no personal morality at all. 他似乎根本不讲个人道德。 Ideas of traditional morality are being questioned all the time. 传统道德观念一直受到质疑。 Sexual morality should be considered a private matter. 性道德应该被认为是私事。 The church tried to uphold public morality by censoring books and magazines. 教会试图通过审查书籍和杂志来维护公共道德。 Whatever her personal morality, she has no right to judge others. 不管她的个人品行如何，她都没有权利去评判他人。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- conventional
- traditional
- strict
- …
- legislate
- question
- impose
- …
- be based on something
- standards of morality
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the degree to which something is right or wrong, good or bad, etc. according to moral principles 合乎道德的程度 There is a continuing debate on the morality of abortion. 关于堕胎是否道德的辩论持续不休。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- conventional
- traditional
- strict
- …
- legislate
- question
- impose
- …
- be based on something
- standards of morality
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a system of moral principles followed by a particular group of people 道德规范；道德体系 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- conventional
- traditional
- strict
- …
- legislate
- question
- impose
- …
- be based on something
- standards of morality
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French moralite or late Latin moralitas, from Latin moralis, from mos, mor- ‘custom’, (plural) mores ‘morals’.