value-system

1. In the introduction, I try to show how the American dream, of both spiritual freedom and material success, exerts an important impact on the value-system of ordinary Americans and functions as a motivating force in their life.
   笔者在本文的导言中，首先指明精神自由和物质富有并重的美国梦对美国人的价值观有着重要的影响，并成为他们生活中强大的原动力。
2. To rebuild the human Value-system and seek back the long-lost poetic home through ecoethics has become an important way to solve people's realistic Existence-crisis.
   通过生态伦理学重建人类的价值体系，寻回失去已久的诗意的家园成为解决人的现实生存危机的一条重要途径。

noun

1. the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group
   1. the Puritan ethic
   2. a person with old-fashioned values

   Synonym:    ethicmoral principlevalue orientation