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 honourable ['ɒnәrәbl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 值得尊敬的, 荣耀的, 高贵的

[法] 荣誉的, 正直的, 体面的




    honourable
    [ adj ]
    1. worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect

    2. <adj.all>
      an honorable man
      led an honorable life
      honorable service to his country
    3. adhering to ethical and moral principles

    4. <adj.all>
      it seems ethical and right
      followed the only honorable course of action


    1. After what markets have done, what will the prime minister say? Ideally, something like this: 'I must apologise to honourable members of this House.
    2. Anyone who seeks peace in Northern Ireland, at an honourable price, should support Mr John Major today.
    3. Of Gwyneth Jones's Dyer's Wife I find it difficult to write justly, especially since she has given such long, honourable service in the role.
    4. Inside, further pictures credit a stylist, set designer, hair and make-up artists, plus there are honourable mentions for 'jeans by Gianni Versace and sheets by Ralph Lauren'.
    5. The very presence of heavy-footed cameramen waving their lenses puts fish to flight. But there are honourable exceptions.
    6. But it was an honourable struggle, full of hope for the human condition.
    7. This is that the RPI Advisory Committee is an anachronism which should be placed into honourable retirement.
    8. Kerr himself shows this hypothesis to be implausible, reporting that many of the early psychoanalysts, setting an honourable precedent no doubt, slept with their patients.
    9. They are honourable people who will meet their legal and contractual obligations and who will pay their legal debts to the limit of their abilities.
    10. With the honourable exception of intellectuals such as Mr John Biffen and clever mavericks such as Mr Nicholas Budgen, that leaves little firepower on the back benches. Take the most bitter malcontents.
    11. The old title, Her Majesty's Inspectorate, was a well-established brand name with an honourable history which no sensible marketeer would lightly abandon. Where will it all end?
    12. Not a single artist has baulked at the undertaking, cut and run: all the works are thorough-going, honourable and effective - the National Portrait Collection, after all, was never one of masterpieces but of images of the great and good.
    13. Only in the final few games, if he has no chance of the title but is losing by an honourable two or three points, can he truly relax. Kasparov's situation is already more comfortable.
    14. Messrs Robert Dole and Robert Michel, the Republican leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives, are solid, honourable politicians, but they can match neither Mr Clinton's intellect nor his rhetoric.
    15. Nothing at all? For an intelligent man to wish to be an artist is an honourable ambition, but to suppose that it may be achieved merely by the intelligent application of the will is to suppose, pace the beggar's long experience, that wishes were horses.
    16. An honourable exception was lead, which ended about 60 per cent up on the year. Precious metals ended with substantial gains on the year, though gold bulls were still waiting for a decisive breach of the psychological barrier at Dollars 400 a troy ounce.
    17. They also had honourable reasons, but they were in a minority.
    18. The Confederation of British Industry, the City University Business School and Liverpool University gain honourable mentions and Professor Wynne Godley of Cambridge University is singled out for giving an early warning of the recession.
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