virtue基本信息
读法：英 ["vɜːtjuː; -tʃuː] 美 ["vɝtʃʊ]
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英英释义
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中英词源
virtue 品德，美德Www.WEnTiYi.COm
来自拉丁语vir,男人，词源同virile,引申词义男人应有的品行和美德，具体为7种基本品行：justice,prudence,temperance,fortitude,hope,faith,charity,后来词义通用化也用来指女人的美德，贞洁等。
- virtue
- virtue: [13] Latin virtūs ‘bravery, strength, capacity, skill, merit’ was derived from vir ‘man’ (source also of English virago ‘manlike woman’ [14] and virile [15]), and so etymologically it denoted ‘manliness’. It passed into English via Old French vertu. Derivatives include virtual [14] which, preserving another semantic aspect of its source, originally meant ‘having power, in effect’, but by the 17th century had evolved into its modern sense ‘so in effect or in essence’; and virtuoso [17], which was borrowed from Italian and goes back to the ancestral sense ‘skill’.
=> virago, virile, virtual, virtuoso - virtue (n.)
- c. 1200, vertu, "moral life and conduct; a particular moral excellence," from Anglo-French and Old French vertu "force, strength, vigor; moral strength; qualities, abilities" (10c. in Old French), from Latin virtutem (nominative virtus) "moral strength, high character, goodness; manliness; valor, bravery, courage (in war); excellence, worth," from vir "man" (see virile).
For my part I honour with the name of virtue the habit of acting in a way troublesome to oneself and useful to others. [Stendhal "de l"Amour," 1822]
Especially (in women) "chastity, sexual purity" from 1590s. Phrase by virtue of (early 13c.) preserves alternative Middle English sense of "efficacy." Wyclif Bible has virtue where KJV uses power. The seven cardinal virtues (early 14c.) were divided into the natural (justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude) and the theological (hope, faith, charity). To make a virtue of a necessity (late 14c.) translates Latin facere de necessitate virtutem [Jerome].
词态变化
复数 virtues;
权威造句
- 1. Mr Olaechea has British residency by virtue of his marriage.
- 奥拉伊奇先生通过结婚而取得在英国的永久居留权。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. She could have established her own innocence and virtue easily enough.
- 她本可以轻易地证实自己纯真善良的品性。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Its other great virtue, of course, is its hard-wearing quality.
- 它的另一个突出优点当然就是经久耐用。
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- 4. She says the programme portrayed her as a "lady of easy virtue".
- 她说这个节目把她刻画成了一个“水性杨花的女人”。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The article stuck in my mind by virtue of one detail.
- 由于一个细节，这篇文章在我脑海里印象深刻。
来自柯林斯例句
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单词分析
这些名词均可表示“优点，长处”之意。merit指有值得赞扬的优点，但不一定是出类拔萃。
virtue指人或物的优点长处，指人的美德。
perfection指达到了理想或完美的程度。
记忆方法
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