Usually, when artists looked in the mirror, they liked what they saw, and what they saw were men, young or old, whose features were ennobled by their calling to bring virtue, beauty and grace into the world.

通常，当艺术家看着镜子，他们喜欢那些自己看到的，那些年轻或年老的男人，那些角色因其呼吁要给这个世界带来德行、美好和优雅，而显得如此高贵。

Our language ennobles meat at the expense of veg: strong, muscular types are " beefy" , lazy people are " couch potatoes" , unresponsive ones " vegetables" .

我们的语言以牺牲为代价来崇尚肉食：强壮的肌肉型人士“牛肉味的”（beefy），懒惰的人却“沙发土豆”，反应迟钝的人则“型”。

" I think the same as ever of you, Eustacia. Nothing of that sort can degrade you—you ennoble the occupation of your husband."

“跟从前的看法一个样，游苔莎。那种事绝不会贬低你——你使你丈夫的职业变崇高了。”

We honor Presidents Washington and Lincoln because they embodied the values and character that ennoble public service.

我们纪念华盛顿总统和林肯总统因为他们代表了使公共服务神圣的价值观和品性。

Rose let them flow undisturbed while she silently caressed the bent head, wondering, with a wistful look in her own wet eyes, what this mysterious passion was which could so move, ennoble, and beautify the beings whom it blessed.

罗斯让它们不受干扰流淌，同时她静静抚摸着低垂的脑袋，她湿润的眼睛里带着渴望的神情，想知道这种神秘的激情什么，它能如此动、高尚和美化它所祝福的人。

Such proof as he offered came, therefore, as a kind of crowning luxury, the flower of a profoundly rooted sentiment; and here again the instinctive reserves and defenses would have seemed to vulgarize what his trust ennobled.

因此，他提供的这种证明一种至高无上的奢侈，根深蒂固的情。在这里，本能的保留和防御似乎又使他的信任变得高尚了。

But Trump claims that the purpose of the order was to " uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States." Biden overturned it pretty much soon after he got into office in 2021.

但特朗普声称该命令的目的“提升和美化公共空间，并使美国变得高尚”。拜登在2021年就任后不久就推翻了这一命令。

Let her only determine, without being too anxious about present happiness, to acquire the qualities that ennoble a rational being, and a rough, inelegant husband may shock her taste without destroying her peace of mind.

让她只下定决心，不要太担心眼前的幸福，获得使理性的人变得高尚的品质，一个粗鲁、不优雅的丈夫可能会震撼她的品味，而不会破坏她内心的平静。

She knew it for what it was; Mr. Bell's kindly sophistry that nearly all men were guilty of equivocal actions, and that the motive ennobled the evil, had never had much real weight with her.

她知道它什么。贝尔先生善意的诡辩说几乎所有的人都犯了模棱两可的行为，动机使罪恶高尚，但她从来没有真正重视过。

Gatsby is a romantic idealist, ennobled by his love for Daisy Buchanan; or, according to Daisy's husband, Tom, he is a pink-suited vulgarian and " common swindler" .

盖茨比个浪漫的理想主义者， 因对黛西·布坎南的爱而显得高贵；或者，按照黛西丈夫汤姆的说法， 他个穿着粉色西装的庸俗徒， 还个“普通的骗子” 。

So Socrates is someone who taught me the beauty of the philosophic life, the beauty of ideas, just so inspiring to me and ennobling to me.

所以苏格拉底教会了我哲学生活的美丽、思想的美丽，对我来说如此的鼓舞人心，让我变得崇高。

But of course it’s not just Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty that celebrate the idea that ennobled violence can lead to a better world.

但当然，不仅仅《刺客信条》和《使命召唤》颂扬了崇高的暴力可以带来更美好世界的理念。

If a European noble  wished to expand his wealth, the only means he might consider was to appropriate the lands of  an equally ennobled neighbor.

如果一位欧洲贵族想要扩大自己的财富，他唯一可能考虑的方法就侵占同样尊贵的邻居的土。

At the culmination of their power, the drama was their chief literary form — the drama, which is but speech ennobled, connected, clarified.

在他们的权力达到顶峰时，戏剧他们的主要文学形式——戏剧，它不过高贵的、相互联系的、澄清的语言。

And a peroration addressed to women should have something, you will agree, particularly exalting and ennobling about it.

你会同意， 一篇针对女性的演讲应该有所作为，尤其对它的赞美和高尚。

As a result, the relatives and friends of the Cao family changed from the previous situation of being suppressed and began to be promoted and ennobled.

于，曹家的亲戚朋友，从以前被压制的状况中，开始升人入贵。

Your love—the most tender and devoted love which ever ennobled the heart of man—cannot draw me back.

你那最温柔最专一的爱——无论何时都能使人心灵高尚的爱——无法让我回头。

Surprised by the challenge to his authority, Goncharov initially " ennobles" the black women by putting them on a par with whites.

冈察洛夫对他的权威受到挑战到惊讶，最初通过将黑人女性与白人相提并论来“高贵”黑人女性。

The saying " When the mother is favored the sons are ennobled" has been handed down from antiquity.

自古就有“母得子贵”的说法。

Or perhaps, rather than ennobling, this comparison already moves in the direction of putting the African woman in her place.

或者，这种比较非但没有高尚，反而已经朝着将非洲女性置于她的位置的方向发展。