the fact of being considered socially acceptable 体面;名望;得体 middle-class notions of respectability 中产阶级对体面的看法 The country has again achieved international respectability after years of isolation. 被孤立了几年之后,该国又重新赢得了国际声望。 The theory has now gained scientific respectability. 该理论现在已经获得了科学上的承认。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bourgeois
- middle-class
- academic
- …
- achieve
- gain
- give something
- …
- an air of respectability
- a veneer of respectability