'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest about that.

'至于我将它留在这里是适当，这你尽可放心。

Exactly, but my sense of propriety has its limits.

确实 但我的风度是有底限的。

" Since when have you gone in so fiercely for the proprieties" ?

“你什么时候开始这么讲究规矩了？”

Miss Darcy, the daughter of Mr. Darcy of Pemberley, and Lady Anne, could not have appeared with propriety in a different manner. I am excessively attentive to all those things.

要知道，她身为彭伯里的达西先生和安妮夫人的千金小姐，不那样便难免有失体统。我对于这一类的事特别留意。

Oh, how grand she would be when she had money again! Then she could permit herself to be kind and gentle, as Ellen had been, and thoughtful of other people and of the proprieties, to.

啊，如果她又有了钱，她会变得多么了不起啊！到那个时候，她会让自己变得像爱伦那样和蔼可亲，处处为别人着想，处处都注意礼仪了。

He stopped for propriety's sake because the servant came in. She put back into the basket the apricots scattered on the sideboard. Charles, without noticing his wife's colour, had them brought to him, took one, and bit into it.

女佣进来了，他只好住口，以免有失体统。 费莉西把子上的杏子放回到篮子里去，夏尔要她拿过来，也没注意他太太的脸红了，拿起一个杏子就咬。

Another day, he was in the same way standing alone, when I passed by below the hall with hasty steps, and said to me, 'Have you learned the rules of Propriety? '

他日，又独立，鲤趋而过庭，曰：‘学《礼》乎？’

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.

一个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地跑去寻找尊严体面的庇护了。

His party raised questions about Mr. Gantz's sexual propriety, his vulnerability to extortion by the Iranians after his cellphone was apparently breached, and even his mental stability.

他的政党还对甘茨在性行为方面是，甘茨手机被入侵后容易受到伊朗人勒索这一，以及他的精神是稳定等诸多问题提出了质疑。

Victorian fashion demanded propriety, regardless of the weather, men still wore long sleeves, long pants, and often vest and jackets.

维多利亚时代着装讲究得体，不分寒暑：男士身着长袖长裤，常搭配马甲外套。

He was called before the curtain, and with great propriety appeared, leading Hagar, whose singing was considered more wonderful than all the rest of the performance put together.

他被观众叫出来谢幕，他非常有礼貌地带着哈伽走出来，而她的美妙的歌声被认为比所有其他的表演都更为了不起。

As they grapple with the endless rules of their society, Austen's characters can usually find humor in all the hypocrisy, propriety, and small talk.

当奥斯汀的角色努力克服社会的无尽规则时，他们通常也可以在所有的虚伪，礼貌和闲聊中找到幽默。

I'd never heard him speak in that lambent tone before. Usually, it was I who teetered on the fringes of propriety.

我从来没听过他用这种机巧的语气说话。通常，我是那个在得体的边缘踉踉跄跄的人。

Good Heavens, Miss Pitty! This is war time. We can't think of the proprieties now.

哎哟，皮蒂小姐，这是战时！我们现在可不能讲究那些老规矩了，我们得替媚兰着想呀。"

All of his life, Frank had been under the domination of the phrase " What will the neighbors say" ? and he was defenseless against the shocks of his wife's repeated disregard of the proprieties.

" 邻居们会怎么说呢？" 现在他妻子因不守礼节而引起了这么大的震动，他对此却毫无办法。

The little presents he brought her from Nassau, little oddments that a lady could accept with propriety, were what mattered most to her.

倒是他从纳索给她带来的那些小礼品，一个女人可以正正当当接受的小玩意，她却十分重视。

For many generations my ancestors have cultivated the soil here, and have been models of propriety.

我的祖先世世代代耕耘这里的土地，成为礼教的典范。

Ellen ignored all things contrary to her ideas of propriety and tried to teach Scarlett to do the same, but with poor success.

对于那些自认为不正当的事情爱伦总是不屑一顾，并且想教导思嘉也这样做，可是没有多大效果。

She did not realize that, with his encouragement, she had disregarded many of the sternest injunctions of her mother concerning the proprieties, forgotten the difficult lessons in being a lady.

她还不明白，正是由于他的鼓励，她才定了母亲关于妇道的许多严格禁条，忘记了作为一个上等女人时很难遵守的那些教训。

Ren is usually translated as " propriety" .

仁通常译为“礼”。