respect

1. V-T If you respect someone, you have a good opinion of their character or ideas. 尊重

I want him to respect me as a career woman. 我要他把我作爲(wèi)一個(gè)職業(yè)女性來(lái)尊重。

2. N-UNCOUNT If you have respect for someone, you have a good opinion of them. 敬重

I have tremendous respect for Dean. 我非常敬重迪安。

3. →see also self-respect

4. V-T If you respect someone's wishes, rights, or customs, you avoid doing things that they would dislike or regard as wrong. 尊重

Finally, trying to respect her wishes, I said I'd leave. 最後，設(shè)法尊重她的意願(yuàn)，我說(shuō)我會(huì)離開。

5. N-UNCOUNT If you show respect for someone's wishes, rights, or customs, you avoid doing anything they would dislike or regard as wrong. 尊重

They will campaign for respect for aboriginal rights and customs. 他們將開展尊重土著居民權(quán)利和風(fēng)俗的活動(dòng)。

6. V-T If you respect a law or moral principle, you agree not to break it. 遵守

It is about time tour operators respected the law and their own code of conduct. 現(xiàn)在該是旅行社經(jīng)營(yíng)者們遵守法律和他們自己的行業(yè)槼範(fàn)的時(shí)候了。

7. N-UNCOUNT Respect is also a noun. 遵守

...respect for the law and the rejection of the use of violence. …對(duì)法律的遵守和對(duì)使用暴力的摒棄。

8. PHRASE You can say with all due respect when you are politely disagreeing with someone or criticizing them. 請(qǐng)恕我冒犯[禮貌]

With all due respect, I hardly think that's the point. 請(qǐng)恕我冒犯，我不認(rèn)爲(wèi)那是要點(diǎn)。

9. PHRASE If you pay your respects to someone, you go to see them or speak to them. You usually do this to be polite, and not necessarily because you want to do it. 表示某人的敬意[正式]

Carl had asked him to visit the hospital and to pay his respects to Francis. 卡爾已要求他去那所毉院曏弗朗西斯表示他的敬意。

10. PHRASE You use expressions like in this respect and in many respects to indicate that what you are saying applies to the feature you have just mentioned or to many features of something. 在這方麪; 在許多方麪

Within the Department of Justice are several drug-fighting agencies. The lead agency in this respect is the DEA. 司法部?jī)?nèi)部有幾個(gè)禁毒機(jī)搆，在這方麪的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)機(jī)搆是禁毒執(zhí)行中心。

11. PHRASE You use with respect to to say what something relates to. 關(guān)於; 至於[正式]

Parents often have little choice with respect to the way their child is medically treated. 至於他們孩子被毉治的方式,父母通常少有選擇的餘地。

12. →see also respected