As Ms Wickenden shows, the trio's success depended on middle-class respectability.

正如威肯登女士所讲述的，这三位女性的成功取决于她们在中产阶级的声望。

Had he tried, Rhett could not have chosen a more difficult time to beat his way back to respectability.

要是瑞德事先已经尝试过的话，他就不会选择一像现在这样困难的时来实行改邪归正了。

The field was growing, and taking on the trappings of scientific respectability.

该领域正在发展，并具备了科学上的可靠性。

According to dictionary. com: number one: a member of the middle class, and number two: a person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.

根据字典，第一含义是中产阶级，第二是政治、经济和社会观点主要由对财产价值和传统位的关注所决定的人。

It was natural that I should take chances; but he was a man whose youth was past, a stockbroker with a position of respectability, a wife and two children.

如果我想碰碰运气做一件什么事的话，这是极其自然的事；但是他的青年时代早已过去了，他是一有身有位的证券经人，家里有一、两孩子。

Our importance, our respectability in the world, must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character.

丽迪雅这种放荡不羁、无法无天的性格，确实对我们体面攸关，一定会影响到我们的社会位。

She also (as I think I have before said) set up her cow; a mark of respectability in Cranford almost as decided as setting up a gig is among some people.

她还（我想我之前说过）养了一头奶牛；在克兰福德，这几乎是体面的标志，就像有些人拥有一辆轻便马车一样。

She is so proud, and thinks so much of her family respectability, that she will be cut down with mortification if this story should get abroad before—it is done.

她自尊心很强，心心念念想的就是家族的名誉。如果这事在我们结婚以前张扬出去，那要把她的面子丢尽了。

The Church, while still under the zealous influence of the Spanish Inquisition, would allow Juana to retain her independence and respectability while remaining unmarried.

教会虽然仍在西班牙宗教裁判所的热心影响下，仍允许胡安娜在未婚的情况下保持独立和受人尊敬。

This was considered an indication of modesty and respectability and shows that the biblical figure is in control of his own urges.

这被认为是谦逊和体面的象征，表明圣经人物控制着自己的冲动。

All those things became really interesting to me as a springboard into larger conversations about race, identity, respectability, privilege. So that's what we did.

对我来说，所有这些事情都变得非常有趣，它们都是进入关于种族、身、名望和特权更大范围对话的跳板。这就是我们所做的。

That air of respectability was carefully concocted by her mother. My grandmother, LaRue, had come of age in the 1950s, in the decade of idealistic fever that burned after World War II.

这种表面的体面是她母亲精心炮制的结果。我的外拉鲁成年于二十世五十年代，当时正值二战后理想主义成为狂热思潮的十年。

" So the river-boat gambler and the speculator is going to be respectable! Well, your first move toward respectability had better be the sale of Belle Watling's house" .

那驾河船的赌棍和投机家就要成为绅士了！我看，你要改邪归正的话，最好还是首先把贝尔·沃特琳的房子卖掉吧。"

No one runs so hurriedly to the cover of respectability as the unconventional woman who has exposed herself to the slings and arrows of outraged propriety.

一标新立异的女人一旦冒犯了礼规，招致了唇枪舌剑的物议，再没有谁会象她那样飞快跑去寻找尊严体面的庇护了。

Old money style was all about refinement and respectability.

钱风格全都与精致和体面有关。

There was certainly a respectability to it and a respect for what they had done.

这当然是值得尊敬的，也是对他们所做的事情的尊重。

The coke ads of this time really painted as a drink of wholesome white respectability.

这段时期的可乐广告真的将可乐描绘成一种正直的白人家庭饮料。

The ascent was trying, but then no one could contest the respectability of the abode.

攀登是艰难的，但没有人能质疑这住所的体面。

The way lies before us, we must turn to the right or left; and he who will pass life away in bounding from one pleasure to another, must not complain if he neither acquires wisdom nor respectability of character.

路就在我们面前，我们必须向右转或向左转；一人在从一种乐趣跳到另一种乐趣中度过一生，如果他既没有获得智慧，也没有获得品格的尊重，就不要抱怨。

He married happily, although his Portuguese in-laws initially objected to the color of his skin Beneath all this outward respectability his prose was radically ingenious ever since the posthumous memoirs of Braska's machado's fifth novel appeared in 1881.

他幸福结婚了，尽管他的葡萄牙岳父母最初反对他的肤色。在这看似正派的外表之下，自从布拉扎斯的马查多第五部小说中的遗作于1881年出版以来，他的文风一直极具创新性。