得体的

A male guest complimented my backless dress that evening.

一位男性客人当晚称赞我所穿的露背礼服，但其实呢，我自认为得体的服装在他看来只不过是为了吸引人们的注意力。

Mr Blair, to his credit, caught this sense of the fraying of English civic culture (much extolled by Orwell as English "decentness"), and tried to alert the nation.

值得赞扬的是，布莱尔首相注意到了英国公民文化（这杯奥威尔赞为"得体"的文化）的破裂，并试图警告这个国家。

Chinese people put themselves down -- the cue for a complimentary contradiction, modest demurral, etc. You see, as Englishmen, we know all about silly rules of etiquette.

中国人很自谦--这种特性提醒着人们要对他们的自谦给出赞扬式的否定、提出得体的异议等等(你看，作为一个英国人，我们知道这一切怪怪的礼节)。

It should be the main purpose of ESL teaching.

外语教学的主要目的是培养学习者使用得体的语言进行交际的能力。

A keen awareness of right from wrong is essen tial for determining appropriate social behavior .

对正误的深刻认识是判定得体的社会行为所必需的。

He was expensively dressed,and wore handsome neckties from Bond Street.

他穿着昂贵的服装，戴着从帮德街买来的得体的领带。

The grand"Sunning Buddha"ceremomy,the festiveperformances of Tibetan operas,and the fascinating horse-race-everthing is to feast your eyes with the mysterious customs of Tibet

充分考虑译文在文化层面和心理层面的可接受性，将"译文读者的文化习惯放在首位，处处为译文读者着想"(贺学耘，2006：58)，凭借得体的译文使交际得以顺利进行。

Resolved, That the objection of indelicacy and impropriety, which is so often brought against woman when she addresses a public audience, comes with a very ill grace from those who encourage, by their attendance, her appearance on the stage, in the concert, or in the feats of the circus.

妇女在公开场合发表演说，常常招致某些人有失典雅端庄之类的攻击，而这些人却以亲自光临的方式怂恿妇女登台演出，举行音乐会或在马戏院出场献技。决议认为，这种攻击是非常不得体的。

Did you use a sans-serif typeface with a decent font size for your body text?

你没有没有选择一个大小得体的有衬线字体(中文一般为12px或14px宋体)来作为你的body文本呢？

Alice's mother liked her would-be son-in-law very much as he was so prim and proper.

艾丽丝的母亲对这个衣冠楚楚、举止得体的准女婿非常喜欢。

If you are unfortunate enough to the lovelorn, please tell me, I will help you out, really, please contact me!

如果你不幸失恋了，请告诉我，我会帮助你摆脱困境，真的，请联系我啦！

China's plan to cut energy intensity by 20 percent and pollutant discharges by 10 percent between 2006 and 2010 is a case in point.

中国计划在2006年到2010间降低20%的能源强度和减少10%的主要污染物排放，就是一个这样的例子。