英语词汇virtue怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

virtue

vɜːʳtʃuː  ˈvɜrtʃu 

Word forms: plural virtues

1 N-UNCOUNT 善行;正直的品性;良好的习惯 Virtue is thinking and doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong. 善行;正直的品性;良好的习惯

Virtue is not confined to the Christian world.

善行并不是仅限于基督教世界。
She could have established her own innocence and virtue easily enough.

她本可以轻易地证实自己纯真善良的品性。

2 N-COUNT 美德;德行 A virtue is a good quality or way of behaving. 美德;德行

His virtue is patience.

耐心是他的美德。
Her flaws were as large as her virtues.

她的缺点和优点一样多。
Humility is considered a virtue.

谦虚被认为是一种美德。

SYN merit, strength, asset, plus [informal]

3 N-COUNT 优点;长处 The virtue of something is an advantage or benefit that it has, especially in comparison with something else. 优点;长处

There was no virtue in returning to Calvi the way I had come. [+ in]

沿着我来的路线返回卡尔维并不可取。
Its other great virtue, of course, is its hard-wearing quality.

它的另一个突出优点当然就是经久耐用。

4 PREP-PHRASE 靠;凭借;由于;因为 You use by virtue of to explain why something happens or is true. 靠;凭借;由于;因为 [formal]

The article stuck in my mind by virtue of one detail.

由于一个细节，这篇文章在我脑海里印象深刻。
Mr Olaechea has British residency by virtue of his marriage.

奥拉伊奇先生通过结婚而取得在英国的永久居留权。

5 PHRASE （假装）心甘情愿地做（迫不得已的事） If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to. （假装）心甘情愿地做（迫不得已的事）

The movie makes a virtue out of its economy.

这部电影充分利用了其有限的成本。

Quotations

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine the Great

Virtue is its own reward Cicero De Finibus

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set Francis Bacon Essays

Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies Bible: Proverbs

For 'tis some virtue, virtue to commend William Congreve

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would
By her own radiant light, though sun and moon
Were in the flat sea sunk John Milton Comus

Against the threats
Of malice or of sorcery, or that power
Which erring men call chance, this I hold firm,
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled John Milton Comus

It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster Rebecca West There Is No Conversation

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire Mark Twain The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat... that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary John Milton Areopagitica

Word Link

vir ≈ man : triumvirate, virile, virtue

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