dignity

英 ['dɪgnɪtɪ] 美['dɪɡnəti]

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复数: dignities;

dignity 高贵，尊严

来自PIE*deik, 接受，体面，得体，词源同decent, doctor.

dignity: dignity: [13] Dignity comes via Old French dignete from Latin dignitās, a derivative of dignus ‘worthy’. Also from the same source was Latin dignāre (source of English deign and its derivative disdain) and late Latin dignificāre (source of English dignify [15]). Dignus itself probably came from an earlier unrecorded *decnus ‘suitable, fitting’, a derivative of the verb decere, which produced English decent. Other related words in English include condign [15] and indignant [16], while dignitās also produced, via a different line of descent, English dainty.
=> condign, dainty, deign, disdain, indignant
dignity (n.): early 13c., from Old French dignite "dignity, privilege, honor," from Latin dignitatem (nominative dignitas) "worthiness," from dignus "worth (n.), worthy, proper, fitting" from PIE *dek-no-, from root *dek- "to take, accept" (see decent).

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. 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。

3. 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。

4. 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。

5. There was elegance and simple dignity in the way he bore himself.: 他举止优雅而庄重。