Be quiet. Don’t speak to me. You have shamed me enough. Have the decency to be quiet.

“住嘴!别跟我说话。你已经够让我丢脸的了。懂点规矩别说话!”

Having or showing a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency .

卑贱的具有或表现出可鄙的，卑贱的，卑鄙的自私的而没有人的可敬的行为标准。

This book argues that the drive for excessive profits is pushing aside honesty and decency in business transactions.

本书指出对于利润的过分追求使人们在从事商业活动时抛弃了诚实和体面。

A sense of decency was implanted in him by his upbringing

从小的家庭教育使他们懂得要为人正派。

However, as soon as she recognised that behind the Confucian insistence on responsibility, civility and decency is the primacy of creativity and transformation as an integral part of one’s commitment to learning to be human.

但过后她发现到儒家所注重的责任感、礼貌规矩和高尚品格之背后，有着人类不可缺少的创意和求变。

But he saw her as a woman who would carefully weight desire and decency , and he knew which she would choose

但是他也了解，她是深知情欲和礼教的分别的，他早就知道她的取舍了。

The flat wings shown on the bottom symbolize steadiness, decency and faithfulness. The entire motif suggests surmounting, soaring, peacefulness and the upbeat and blessed future.

底座平切的翅膀，则是稳定正派诚实的表征。整个造型象征超越、翱翔、和平，以及带向健康快乐的未来。

No man can be good enough to enable him to neglect the rules of prudence; nor will Virtue herself look beautiful, unless she be bedecked with outward ornaments of decency and decorum

多么善良的人也不能忽视谨慎之道，道德如果不是用端庄恭谨来装扮，就显不出它的美来。

The law delineates the minimal standards of decency that are necessary for human and business interaction.

法律规定了人类和商业活动最基本的道德标准.

In the end, all the world’s wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit

归根到底，全世界的财富和军队都抵不过人的精神

still has some sense of decency left

还能知道做些体面的事情

Have the decency to(ie be polite and)apologize for what you did!

讲点礼貌,为你所做的事道歉!

She is unexpectedly cheerful, and her dining-room has the decency of clean bareness.

她出乎意料地欢乐,她的餐室有一种清洁而无装饰的高雅。

She had the decency to admit her error.

她气量大,承认了自己的错误。

The sympathy she felt for Hurstwood, at the time he asked her to tide him over, vanished with these newer urgings of decency . He was not always renewing his request, but this love of good appearance was.

她有了这些新的想要体面的迫切要求之后,当赫斯渥求她帮助他度过难关时,她对他抱有的那份同情就消失了。他没有总是重提他的要求,而这爱美的愿望却一直在提着要求。

Having or showing a contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish lack of human decency .

具有或表现出可鄙的,卑贱的,卑鄙的自私的而没有人的可敬的行为标准。

Decency forbids.

君子自重(请勿在此处小便)。

They seem determined to shove the 35th down our throats at any cost-at the cost of honesty, at the cost of decency

看来他们不择手段--不顾信用和廉耻，硬要把第35号修正案强加到我们头上。

The beast hasn’t a shred of common decency . He deserves a bad end for dreaming of such a thing.

没人伦的混帐东西,起这个念头,叫他不得好死!

for decency `s sake (＝ for the sake of decency )

面子上的；形式上的.

You’d think he’d have the common decency to apologize for what he said.

你还以为他懂礼貌,会为他说的话道歉.

Have the decency to wait until I finish.

请礼貌一些，听我讲完。

standards of morality, decency and propriety that are generally accepted by reasonable members of the community, and in relation thereto may have regard to--

社会上明理之人通常接受之道德礼教标准，在此方面可考虑下列事项--

Its many frank references to nudity and sexuality offended nineteenth-century notions of decency

书中对裸体和性的露骨描写触犯了19世纪的正统观念。

He didn’t even have the decency to call.

他不懂情理,连个电话都不打。

He radiates the kind of fundamental decency that has a name in Yiddish;he’s a mensch(James Atlas)

他浑身散发出一种在意第绪语中有名的天性庄重的风度;他是个体面人士(詹姆斯·阿特拉斯)

He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed

他列举了过去的礼仪和程序，赞美他年轻时经过的纪律严明的时代。

He still retains a spark of decency .

他仍然保持着一点起码的体面。

His essential decency makes it impossible to dislike him.

他十分正派,使人不能不喜欢他.

He is a man of decency

他为人正派。

common decency

ph.1. 常人的礼节;起码的礼貌

offense of outraging public decency

凌辱公德罪