…at present he needed all his self-command to be decently civil

…现在他得运用自己的全部自制力才能保持必要的客套。

The struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive, to live decently is our struggle

波士顿残疾人为生存、为过上体面生活的斗争就是我们的斗争。

Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange. The moth having righted himself now lay most decently and uncomplainingly composed. O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am.

几分钟以前，生命令人奇怪，而现在，死亡同样令人奇怪。现在飞蛾翻过身来，体面安详地躺着，没有一丝怨言。是啊，他似乎在说:死亡比我强大。

comport oneself decently

举止大方.

and the night or two before his death, as I have already said, he left his purse on the mantelpiece, with which they paid the old man’s debts, and buried him decently

那天晚上，就是老唐太斯去世前的一两天，我已经说过，他还把他的钱袋留在壁炉架上，多亏了这零钱人们才能替老人偿清了债务，并象样地埋葬了他。

You would not have had time to come back and decently pack your things and depart.

你不会有时间回来从从容容整理东西,然后再动身。

On the first day to work in the company, you should get neatly and decently dressed. You don’t want to get off the wrong foot, do you?

你头一天到那个公司上班应该穿得整洁体面,你总不愿意出师不利吧?

Mr. Profond, in fact, made the mood too plain in a country which decently veiled such realities

事实上，普罗芳先生把他这种心情暴露得太明显了，而他来到的这个国家却是将这类现实很有礼貌地遮盖起来的。

He dresses decently even though he doesn’t have a cent to his name.

虽然他一分钱也没有，却仍然穿得很得体。

Such then was the extent of knowledge possessed by every American on the subject, and of which no one could decently profess ignorance

所有这一切，都是一个美国人不能不知道，也不该不知道的东西。

He is doing decently

他的境况尚佳。

If he at least behaved decently no one would mind

他既是这样,就该行些正经事,人也没的说.

He has not body enough to cover his mind decently ; his intellect is improperly exposed.

他没有足够的肉体来大大方方地遮掩其精神;他的才智突出得不像样子。

They might decently submerge themselves until the misery and shame of this had in part at least been forgotten

他们也许可以相当体面地暂时销声匿迹，等到这次的不幸和羞辱至少部分地被人淡忘后再说。

He dresses decently ,yet he seldom has a guinea at command.

他衣着体面，然而他很少有一块钱可供花用。

I explained that I had come to see everything carried on decently

我解释说我来看看一切是不是都搞得还像样。

I feel, as I look at you, that we will be treated fairly and decently , even understandingly and kindly

我眼睛看着你们，心里在想，我们一定会得到公平合理的待遇，甚至还会得到善意的谅解。

Though I must say this for Han Meng-hsiang: he always treats his friends decently

想起来，老韩对朋友总算不错

The children do not know how to behave themselves decently .

小孩子不懂得怎样举止得体。

The children do not know how to behave themselves decently

小孩子不懂如何举止得体。

The new servant was decently dressed.

新来的佣人衣着得体。

I made inquiries, and found that the house in the Champs Elyses is his own property, and certainly it was very decently kept up

至于别的，那座房子在我看来倒还富丽堂皇，地点在香榭丽舍大道，而且，我听说，还是他自己的产业。

GM would be decently profitable by 2014.

2014年时能获得丰厚的盈利。

Kim Jong-il is a naughty boy who wants attention and incentives to behave decently .

爱捣乱的金正日想获得注意，想获得让他规规矩矩的激励。

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.

没有一个怀疑读者智商、态度高人一等的人能够写得像样。

Growing up, in a decently developed area, a child thrives to find a place that he or she can call his or her own.

每一个在高度发展的地区长大的孩子，幼年都极力想寻找一块可以称为自己的地盘的地方。

Progresa gave monthly stipends to mothers of children in the program if they attended school regularly and did decently .

如果参与“进步”项目的儿童定期到校就读，并且表现良好，其母亲就能按月获得补贴。

If the 500m or so Indians living in poverty today began to eat half-decently, that alone would have a substantial impact on food demand.

如果眼下仍生活在贫困线以下的约5亿印度人开始吃得像样一些，仅此一点，就会对食品需求产生重大影响。

Seems like it pays decently , has good benefits, and is related to multiculturalism, which I find to be an important topic.

似乎它的薪酬比较过得去，也有良好的效益，并且与多方面都有联系，我觉得这是很重要的因素。

So the city schools have done decently , especially in the face of continuing difficulties.

所以城市的学校表现很抢眼，尤其考虑到他们遇到长期的困难。