self-respecting

英 [ˌself rɪˈspektɪŋ]

美 [ˌself rɪˈspektɪŋ]

adj.  有自尊心的

牛津词典

adj.

• 有自尊心的
  having pride in yourself because you believe that what you do is right and good
  1. No self-respecting journalist would ever work for that newspaper.
     凡有自尊心的记者都不会为那家报纸工作。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 地道的，典型的(一类人)
  You can useself-respectingwith a noun describing a particular type of person to indicate that something is typical of, or necessary for, that type of person.
  1. He died as any self-respecting gangster should — in a hail of bullets...
     他死于乱枪之下——匪徒典型的最终下场。
  2. No self-respecting gourmet would travel in France without the Michelin red guide.
     任何地道的美食家游览法国时都会带着一本红皮的《米其林指南》。

英英释义

adj

• having or showing self-esteem
  Synonym:dignifiedself-respectful

双语例句

• What self-respecting drug dealer cuts his cocaine with potassium cyanide?
  哪种自信的药贩子会用氰化钾来切可卡因呢？
• Sabrina: No self-respecting waitress would take it.
  有自尊的女服务生不会接受。
• Gold shines during crises, as any self-respecting gold bug will tell you.
  任何有自尊的黄金爱好者都会告诉你，黄金会在危机中闪光。
• Self-respecting CEOs now change their vehicles almost as often as drug dealers and are also aping the hustler's taste in bling-and in lawlessness.
  自视甚高的CEO们如今几乎就和毒品贩子一样频繁地更换汽车，还模仿他们嗜好贵重珠宝和目无法纪的作风。
• Their refusal to defer to humans like other domestic animals, which seemed wickedly insubordinate in earlier centuries, is now taken as evidence of self-respecting independence.
  猫与其它家养动物不同的与人类保持距离的个性，从前被认为是邪恶和不服从，但现在已被广泛作为独立和自尊的象征。
• No self-respecting guests immediately accept whatever may be offered to them in someone's home.
  在别人家里，任何一个有自尊心的客人都不会立刻接受主人给的礼物。
• Traditionally, any self-respecting man could have been expected to fork out at least a month's salary to buy his beloved an engagement ring.
  一般来说，任何一个有自尊的男士大概都愿意拿出至少一个月的薪水给自己心爱的人买个订婚戒指。
• No self-respecting surgeon, nurse, anesthesiologist or technician would ever dream of breaching those sterile protocols in the surgical suites.
  这里的外科医生、护士、麻醉师和技术人员没有人可以想象会允许任何人打破这个（无菌操作）规矩。
• Mary has no idea how to bring up her children to be independent and self-respecting; she waits on them hand and foot.
  玛丽不知道如何教育她的孩子独立自尊。凡事都是她自己替他们做了。
• His lechery made him the enemy of every self-respecting husband and father in the county.
  他的好色放浪使他成为全县所有自尊自重的丈夫和父亲的公敌。