dignity

noun

1. 庄重；庄严；尊严
   a calm and serious manner that deserves respect
   1. She accepted the criticism with quiet dignity.
      她大度地接受了批评。
2. 尊贵；高贵；高尚
   the fact of being given honour and respect by people
   1. the dignity of work
      工作的光荣
   2. The terminally ill should be allowed to die with dignity.
      应该允许垂危病人死得有尊严。
3. 自豪；自尊；自重
   a sense of your own importance and value
   1. It's difficult to preserve your dignity when you have no job and no home.
      一个无家无业的人难以保持自己的尊严。

1. N-UNCOUNT 庄严;庄重;端庄
   If someone behaves or moves with dignity, they are calm, controlled, and admirable.
   1. ...her extraordinary dignity and composure.
      她那种端庄沉着的非凡气质
2. N-UNCOUNT 尊贵;高贵;高尚
   If you talk about the dignity of people or their lives or activities, you mean that they are valuable and worthy of respect.
   1. ...the sense of human dignity.
      人的高尚感
   2. ...the integrity and the dignity of our lives and feelings.
      我们的生命以及情感的完整统一和尊贵庄严
3. N-UNCOUNT 尊严;自尊
   Your dignity is the sense that you have of your own importance and value, and other people's respect for you.
   1. If you were wrong, admit it. You won't lose dignity, but will gain respect...
      如果你错了，那就承认。你不会因此而失去尊严，反而会赢得尊重。
   2. She still has her dignity.
      她仍然保持着自己的尊严。

1. It's an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this
   如此维持一个人的生命是对人类尊严的冒犯。
2. There was elegance and simple dignity in the way he bore himself.
   他举止优雅而庄重。
3. They carried themselves with great pride and dignity.
   他们举手投足间透着傲气和高贵。
4. Unfortunately, on Friday night he showed neither decency nor dignity
   不幸的是，周五晚上他表现得既不得体，也不庄重。
5. She's got too much dignity to descend to writing anonymous letters.
   她是个自尊心很强的人，绝不会自贬身份去写匿名信。
6. If you were wrong, admit it. You won't lose dignity, but will gain respect
   如果你错了，那就承认。你不会因此而失去尊严，反而会赢得尊重。
7. She still has her dignity.
   她仍然保持着自己的尊严。
8. All the Greenpeace people behaved with impressive forbearance and dignity.
   所有绿色和平组织人士表现出了超乎寻常的克制和大度。
9. This socialism does not after all offer a magic formula for prosperity and human dignity.
   这种社会主义说到底并不能提供实现富足和人格尊严的神奇方案。
10. He suffered a long series of illnesses with tremendous dignity and fortitude.
    他凭借超乎常人的保持生命尊严的信念和顽强意志力忍受着各种病痛的折磨。
11. On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity. It was an uncommon lapse.
    星期五那天他的表现既不得体，又有失尊严。如此失态非常少有。
12. A more relaxed regime and regular work lends the inmates a dignity not seen in other prisons.
    由于管理较为宽松而且经常从事劳动，这里的囚犯因此多了一份其他监狱的囚犯所没有的尊严感。
13. Rather than politely lobbying politicians, Gay Dignity will be making its presence felt through demonstrations.
    “同性恋尊严”游行活动不会彬彬有礼地向政客们游说，而会通过示威引起关注。
14. He sat with such regal dignity
    他端坐在那里，浑身透着王者的威严。
15. She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity.
    失去了美貌和尊严，她看上去糟透了。
16. If you just tried to show normal dignity, you were viewed as uppity.
    就算是只想表现出正常的尊严，也会被人认为是骄傲自大。
17. The act would be below the national dignity.
    这种行为有失国格。
18. In america's ideal of freedom, citizens find the dignity and security of economic independence, instead of laboring on the edge of subsistence.
    在美国的自由理想中，公民们发现了经济独立带来的尊严和保障，而不是徘徊在生存边缘的辛苦劳作。
19. He did not consider it a loss of face ( or beneath his dignity) to do these things.
    他并不认为干这些事就会有失体面。
20. If we fail let us go down with dignity.
    万一失败，那就“宁为玉碎，不为瓦全”。
21. The real dignity of a man lies in what he is, not in what he has.
    一个人真正的高尚在于他是什么样的人，而不在于他拥有什么。
22. Every bit of his dignity and prestige was swept into the dust.
    他的体面威风扫地以尽。
23. Lie was a person high in dignity.
    他是个位高权重的人。
24. One should behave with honour and dignity.
    人须自尊。
25. I like the freedom and dignity associated with this work.
    我喜欢这份工作的自由和尊严。
26. They had dignity and became powerful.
    他们自此有了尊严和力量。
27. Human dignity was denied and trampled upon.
    人的尊严遭到了蔑视和践踏。
28. I renewed my dignity.
    我重拾了我的尊严。
29. An affront to one's dignity or self-esteem.
    公开侮辱某人的尊严和自尊。
30. This is an urgent matter of human development, and human dignity.
    这是事关人类发展和人类尊严的紧迫问题。

  dignity decorum nobility【导航词义：得体】

  dignity n. 体面，庄重，尊严

〔辨析〕指临危不惧、镇定自若的品质。

  decorum n. 〈正式〉端庄，得体

〔辨析〕尤指在某一正式场合下礼貌得体的行为。

  nobility n. 高贵，崇高

〔辨析〕指高尚的品质、道德操守等。

n.

beneath your dignity

• 有失尊严；有失身份；有失体面
  below what you see as your own importance or worth

stand on your dignity

• 要求受到应有的礼遇；保持尊严
  to demand to be treated with the respect that you think that you deserve

noun

1. the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
   1. it was beneath his dignity to cheat
   2. showed his true dignity when under pressure

   Synonym:    self-respectself-regardself-worth

2. formality in bearing and appearance
   1. he behaved with great dignity

   Synonym:    lordlinessgravitas

3. high office or rank or station
   1. he respected the dignity of the emissaries