词汇精选：virtue的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

高尚的品德；正直的品行

例句：

You can trust him; he's a man of highest virtue.

你可以信任他。他是一位品德高尚的人。

例句：

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

美德如宝石，朴素它最美。

美德；德行

例句：

Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue.

礼貌和美德是分不开的伴侣。

例句：

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth discover virtue.

顺境时显现恶习，逆境时凸现美德

【古】（女子的）贞操

例句：

Not that I mistrust her virtue, but - she is a woman. there lie the suspicion.

并非我怀疑她的贞操，可是--她是个女人嘛。怀疑就在于这一点。

例句：

Any woman in the world, even a nun, would rather lose her virtue than her reputation.

世间的女性，甚至尼姑，都情愿失掉贞操也不愿失掉声誉。

优点

例句：

Meekness is a virtue he appreciates in his wife.

温顺是他所欣赏的妻子的优点之一。

例句：

Nylons have the virtue of durability.

尼龙丝袜有耐穿的优点。

（内在的）功效，价值

例句：

And its value exists by virtue of the fact that it is generally acceptable.

它拥有的只是法律所赋予它的价值。

[Virtues]【宗】道德天使

【古】男子气概，风度

例句：

He gave her this assurance with his usual air of being particularly pleased to exercise a social virtue.

他让她相信，他的态度与平时一样，特别注重社交上的优美风度。

二、词义辨析：

merit,virtue,perfection

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。

三、参考例句：

His virtue is patience.

耐心是他的美德。

Honesty is a virtue.

诚实是一种美德。

Punctuality is a virtue.

守时是一种美德。

Patience is a virtue.

忍耐是一种美德。

Virtue will prevail against evil.

美德定将战胜邪恶。

Virtue is its own reward.

为善自得其乐。

Her virtue is like a pathless desert.

她的品德像一片人迹难到的沙漠。

His virtue had been rewarded so.

他的德行获得了这样的报应。

Nylons have the virtue of durability.

尼龙丝袜有耐穿的优点。

Virtue is far fairer than beauty.

美德远胜于美貌。