| 释义 |
Examples:not closing properly (of door, window etc)—hang up properly (telephone, picture, clothes etc)—start to understand things properly—(fig.) half-finished job that is difficult complete because it was not done properly in the first instance—(is it) proper? (rhetorical question)—normal and proper practice—proper fraction (with numerator < denominator, e.g. five sevenths)—assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact—like a fish back in water (idiom); glad be back in one's proper surroundings—lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper—the only proper course take—lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. get over difficulties before reaching the goal—proper human relationships—not take a proper measure of oneself—look after one's aged parents and arrange proper burial after they die—ignore one's proper occupation—not very proper or appropriate—be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter [idiom.]— |