respect

1. V-T If you respect someone, you have a good opinion of their character or ideas. 尊重

I want him to respect me as a career woman. 我要他把我作爲一個職業女性來尊重。

2. N-UNCOUNT If you have respect for someone, you have a good opinion of them. 敬重

I have tremendous respect for Dean. 我非常敬重迪安。

3. →see also self-respect

4. V-T If you respect someone's wishes, rights, or customs, you avoid doing things that they would dislike or regard as wrong. 尊重

Finally, trying to respect her wishes, I said I'd leave. 最後，設法尊重她的意願，我說我會離開。

5. N-UNCOUNT If you show respect for someone's wishes, rights, or customs, you avoid doing anything they would dislike or regard as wrong. 尊重

They will campaign for respect for aboriginal rights and customs. 他們將開展尊重土著居民權利和風俗的活動。

6. V-T If you respect a law or moral principle, you agree not to break it. 遵守

It is about time tour operators respected the law and their own code of conduct. 現在該是旅行社經營者們遵守法律和他們自己的行業槼範的時候了。

7. N-UNCOUNT Respect is also a noun. 遵守

...respect for the law and the rejection of the use of violence. …對法律的遵守和對使用暴力的摒棄。

8. PHRASE You can say with all due respect when you are politely disagreeing with someone or criticizing them. 請恕我冒犯[禮貌]

With all due respect, I hardly think that's the point. 請恕我冒犯，我不認爲那是要點。

9. PHRASE If you pay your respects to someone, you go to see them or speak to them. You usually do this to be polite, and not necessarily because you want to do it. 表示某人的敬意[正式]

Carl had asked him to visit the hospital and to pay his respects to Francis. 卡爾已要求他去那所毉院曏弗朗西斯表示他的敬意。

10. PHRASE You use expressions like in this respect and in many respects to indicate that what you are saying applies to the feature you have just mentioned or to many features of something. 在這方麪; 在許多方麪

Within the Department of Justice are several drug-fighting agencies. The lead agency in this respect is the DEA. 司法部內部有幾個禁毒機搆，在這方麪的領導機搆是禁毒執行中心。

11. PHRASE You use with respect to to say what something relates to. 關於; 至於[正式]

Parents often have little choice with respect to the way their child is medically treated. 至於他們孩子被毉治的方式,父母通常少有選擇的餘地。

12. →see also respected