moral
[UK]/'mɒr.əl/ [US]/'mɔ:r-/
adjective
E
* relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. which each person believes in, rather than to laws
道德的

1. It's her moral obligation to tell the police what she knows.
她把所知道的事告诉警方是道义上的责任。

2. It is not part of a novelist's job to make a moral judgment.
小说家并不需要作道德上的批判。

3. She was the only politician to condemn the proposed law on moral grounds (= for moral reasons).
她是唯一一个从道德角度，对提议施行的法律作出谴责的政治家。

4. The Democrats are attempting to capture the moral high ground (= are trying to appear more honest and good than the other political parties).
民主党试图显出在道义上占优势。
Compare amoral ; immoral
I
* behaving in ways considered by most people to be correct and honest
有道德的，品行端正的

1. She's a very moral woman.
她是个品行极为端正的女人。

2. Oh, stop being so moral!
哦，别这么一本正经！

3. Is TV responsible for weakening people's moral fibre (= ability to behave well and honestly and work hard) ?
电视是否要对人们的道德品质下降负责呢？

[UK]/'mɒr.əl/ [US]/'mɔ:r-/
noun
STANDARDS 规范
morals
I [plural]
* standards for good or bad character and behaviour
道德；品行；道德规范

1. public/private morals
公共／个人道德

2. old-fashioned disapproving a person of loose morals (= whose character or sexual behaviour are considered unacceptable)
放荡的人

[UK]/'mɒr.əl/ [US]/'mɔ:r-/
noun
MESSAGE 讯息
[C]
* The moral of a story, event or experience is the message which you understand from it about how you should or should not behave
道德教训；寓意

1. And the moral of/to the story is that honesty is always the best policy.
这个故事的寓意是：诚实总是上策。

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☞ moral
moral / 5mCrEl; NAmE 5mC:r-; 5mB:r- / adjective1. [only before noun] concerned with principles of right and wrong behaviour
   道德的:
   a moral issue / dilemma / question
   道德方面的议题/困境/问题
   traditional moral values
   传统的道德观念
   a decline in moral standards
   道德水准的下降
   moral philosophy
   道德哲学
   a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense
   道德意识极强的笃信宗教的人
   The newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.
   报纸上充满着对别国软弱表现的道义上的不满。
2. [only before noun] based on your own sense of what is right and fair, not on legal rights or duties
   道义上的；道德上的
   SYN  ethical :
    moral responsibility / duty
   道义上的责任/义务
   Governments have at least a moral obligation to answer these questions.
   政府至少在道义上有责任回应这些问题。
   (BrE) The job was to call on all her diplomatic skills and moral courage (= the courage to do what you think is right).
   这项工作需要她发挥全部的外交才能和扞衞正义的勇气。
3. following the standards of behaviour considered acceptable and right by most people
   品行端正的；有道德的
   SYN  good , honourable :
   He led a very moral life.
   他这个人一向很正派。
   a very moral person
   品行非常端正的人
⇨ compare amoral , immoral
4. [only before noun] able to understand the difference between right and wrong
   能辨别是非的:
   Children are not naturally moral beings.
   儿童并非天生就能分辨是非。
 IDIOMS 
▪ take, claim, seize, etc. the moral 'high ground
   to claim that your side of an argument is morally better than your opponents' side; to argue in a way that makes your side seem morally better
   声称自己的论点在道义上占优势noun1. morals [pl.] standards or principles of good behaviour, especially in matters of sexual relationships
   品行,道德(尤指性关系方面):
   Young people these days have no morals.
   现在的年轻人根本不讲道德。
   The play was considered an affront to public morals.
   人们认为这出戏侮辱了社会公德。
  (old-fashioned) a woman of loose morals (= with a low standard of sexual behaviour)
   放荡的女人
2. [C] a practical lesson that a story, an event or an experience teaches you
   寓意；教益:
   And the moral is that crime doesn't pay.
   寓意就是犯罪得不偿失。

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moral

I. noun

1. practical lesson

• VERB + MORAL draw There are clear ~s to be drawn from the failure of these companies.

• PREPOSITION ~ to There is a ~ to the story.

2. morals principles

• ADJECTIVE good, high, strong | loose, low | sexual | public | personal | Christian

• VERB + MORALS have He has absolutely no ~s, that man! | instil/instill She was gradually instilling ~s into her children. | teach (sb) | corrupt

• PHRASES a decline in ~s

II. adj.
Moral is used with these nouns: accountability, agent, ambiguity, ambivalence, anarchy, argument, aspect, attitude, authority, awareness, bankruptcy, barometer, belief, blackmail, censure, certainty, character, choice, claim, climate, code, commitment, conduct, connotation, conscience, consideration, conviction, corruption, courage, cowardice, credibility, crisis, critique, crusade, decay, decency, decline, development, dilemma, dimension, disagreement, disapproval, distinction, distress, duty, equivalent, evil, fabric, faculty, failing, failure, fault, fervour, fibre, force, foundation, ground, grounding, guardian, guidance, idea, ideal, imagination, implication, improvement, indignation, inferiority, instruction, integrity, intuition, issue, judgement, justification, lapse, lead, leadership, lesson, majority, message, motivation, norm, objection, obligation, order, outlook, outrage, overtone, panic, passion, perfection, philosopher, philosophy, point of view, principle, problem, progress, purity, quality, question, reasoning, reflection, reform, responsibility, restraint, revulsion, right, rule, scruples, sense, sentiment, seriousness, shortcoming, significance, stance, stand, standard, standing, standpoint, stature, superior, superiority, support, tale, teaching, theology, tone, training, truth, universe, urgency, vacuum, value, victory, virtue, vision, weakness, wrong, yardstick

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moral adj.
⇨ moral (a moral issue/duty) ⇨ good 5 (lead a moral life) moral

adjective

moral ♦︎ ethicalBoth of these words describe sb/sth that is concerned with principles of what is right and wrong. 这两个词均表示道德的、伦理的。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆a moral / an ethical question / issue / problem / dilemma◆moral / ethical ideals / values / standards / principles / practices■ moral [only before noun] concerned with principles of what is right and wrong; based on your own sense of what is right and fair, not on legal rights or duties 道德的；道义上的；道德上的◆The basic moral philosophies of most world religions are remarkably similar.大多数世界性宗教的基本道德哲学非常相似。◆He's a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense.他是个笃信宗教的人，道德意识极强。◆British newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.英国报纸总是道貌岸然地说别的国家不好。◆ (BrE) The job was to call upon all her skills of diplomacy and moral courage (= the courage to do what you think is right).这项工作需要她全力发挥自己的外交才能和道德勇气。  see also moral ⇨ good 5 , morals , morality ⇨ principle 1 ▸ morally

adverb

◆Was the attack morally justified?那次袭击从道义上讲是正当的吗？■ ethical ˈeθɪkl [only before noun] concerned with principles of what is right and wrong, especially in the context of business, politics or society 道德的，伦理的（尤用于商务、政治或社会语境）◆There's an overwhelming ethical argument for the protection of the environment.环境保护有无可辩驳的道德论据支持。  see also ethical ⇨ good 5 , ethics ⇨ principle 1 , ethic ⇨ values ▸ ethically

adverb

◆Paying workers less than a living wage is ethically unacceptable.付给工人的薪水比基本生活工资还低，这从道义上讲是不可接受的。NOTE 辨析 Moral or ethical? Moral is used especially to talk about the behaviour and standards of individual people in their daily lives. It is particularly concerned with people's duties and feelings: collocates include duty, obligation, imperative, sense, indignation, outrage, panic and courage. Ethical is usually used to talk about the principles and practices of people in a particular profession or area of work, or of society generally. It can sound more formal and less forceful than moral, and is concerned with issues rather than duties or feelings: collocates include guideline, criterion and proposition. * moral尤指个人在日常生活中的行为和道德水准，尤与人的责任和情感相关，搭配词有duty、obligation、imperative、sense、indignation、outrage、panic和courage。ethical通常指特定行业或工作领域内的人或者整个社会所奉行的原则和通例，听起来较moral正式，但不及moral有力，较多与议题而非责任或情感相关，搭配词有guideline、criterion和proposition。

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moral

adjective
1 moral issues
ETHICAL; social, behavioural; having to do with right and wrong.

2 a very moral man
VIRTUOUS , good, righteous, upright, upstanding, high-minded, right-minded, principled, proper, honourable, honest, just, noble, incorruptible, scrupulous, respectable, decent, irreproachable, truthful, law-abiding, clean-living, chaste, pure, blameless, sinless.
-opposite(s): IMMORAL, BAD, DISHONOURABLE.

3 moral support
PSYCHOLOGICAL , emotional, mental.

noun
1 the moral of the story
LESSON , message, meaning, significance, signification, import, point, precept, teaching.

2 {morals} he has no morals and cannot be trusted
MORAL CODE , code of ethics, moral standards, moral values, principles, principles of right and wrong, rules of conduct, standards/principles of behaviour, standards, morality, sense of morality, scruples, ideals.

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moral 道德规范，道义，品德，道德的，道义的
来自拉丁语moralis, 举止，行为，得体的举止，来自mos, 品行，性格，风俗，习惯，来自PIE→*mo, 努力，辛劳，做事方式，词源同mood, mores, mole。引申词义道德的，道义的。

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