civility

英 [səˈvɪləti]

美 [səˈvɪləti]

n.  彬彬有礼的行为; 礼貌; 客气; 客套

复数：civilities　

考研TOEFLGRE

BNC.21057 / COCA.12195

牛津词典

noun

• 彬彬有礼的行为；礼貌；客气
  polite behaviour
  1. Staff members are trained to treat customers with civility at all times.
     全体职员接受训练，以便在任何时候对顾客都以礼相待。
• 客套；客气
  remarks that are said only in order to be polite

柯林斯词典

• → see:civil

英英释义

noun

• the act of showing regard for others
  Synonym:politeness
• formal or perfunctory politeness

双语例句

• The occupation of a man is in duty, in use, in civility, in politics.
  男子汉的工作是责任、义务、礼仪和政治活动。
• She answered him with cold civility.
  她客客气气地敷衍了他一下。
• We have big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low morale, secured rights and diminished civility.
  我们得到了大房子，但却换来了家庭的破裂；我们得到了高收入，但却降低了道德水准；
• Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment.
  谦逊有礼不是战术也不是感情用事。
• A state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect.
  和谐或相互尊敬的气氛或状态。
• The young men treated him with great civility, and gradually engaged him in a conversation.
  这位年轻人对他非常客气，渐渐与他交谈起来。
• First, there has been a decline in moral values and political civility at home.
  首先，国内的道德价值观和政治文明衰退。
• But civility has been sacrificed to the gratuitous insult.
  然而礼貌却沦为无端侮辱的牺牲品。
• Heathcliff had not the habit of bestowing a single unnecessary civility on Miss Linton, I knew.
  我知道，希刺克厉夫对林惇小姐向来没有献一下不必要的殷勤的习惯。
• Yet his outreach to Republicans is no sham; his civility, I think, is not a front.
  然而，他向共和党示好并不是佯装；我想他的礼貌行为也不是装摸作样。