civility
英 [səˈvɪləti]
美 [səˈvɪləti]
n. 彬彬有礼的行为; 礼貌; 客气; 客套
复数:civilities
BNC.21057 / COCA.12195
牛津词典
noun
- 彬彬有礼的行为;礼貌;客气
polite behaviour- Staff members are trained to treat customers with civility at all times.
全体职员接受训练,以便在任何时候对顾客都以礼相待。
- Staff members are trained to treat customers with civility at all times.
- 客套;客气
remarks that are said only in order to be polite
柯林斯词典
- → see:civil
英英释义
noun
- the act of showing regard for others
- formal or perfunctory politeness
双语例句
- We demand a level of civility and cooperation.
我们需要一个礼貌和合作的标准。 - She greeted them with civility, but not much warmth.
她客气地招呼了他们,可是不大热情。 - I used to think that civility just meant "be nice," as mom used to say.
过去我常常认为文明仅意味着母亲过去常说的“对人和蔼”。 - Hobbes, more than anyone else, wants us to value the virtues of civility.
霍布斯比任何人都更想让我们,重视文明的美德。 - We have big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low morale, secured rights and diminished civility.
我们得到了大房子,但却换来了家庭的破裂;我们得到了高收入,但却降低了道德水准; - There's really no excuse for not having a big civility footprint.
的确人们没有一个借口不去留下大的文明足迹。 - Confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.
混乱使世界四分五裂,破坏了所有礼貌和尊敬的界限。 - Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
友谊不能有客套,但也少不了礼貌。 - Comity is the practice, or courtesy, between states of treating each other with goodwill and civility.
国际礼让是国家之间基于善意和礼节彼此给予对方的习惯和礼貌作法。 - Can we measure a civility footprint as we would a carbon footprint?
人们测量文明足迹能像对碳足迹一样吗?
