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honourn.
1. fact of being honourable,high reputation光荣，荣誉。
△H.VIII.3.2.182(181):“the honour of it/Does pay the act of it，”(it: being loyal to one’s sovereign.)为人臣者的忠诚定会得到荣誉的报偿。
△Rom.3. 2. 93:“For’tis a throne where honour may be crowned / Solemonarch of the universal earth.”因为那是荣誉独自称王的宝座，普天之下都要瞻仰。
2. sense of honour荣誉感。
△H.VIII.1.1.39:“As I belong to worship and affect / In honour honesty，”我有贵族的身份，荣誉感使我热爱诚实。
3. honourable duty光荣责任。
△H.VIII.5.3.117 (5.2.152):“One that,in all obedience,makes the Church / The chief aim of his honour，” i.e.makes it his chief object to benefit the Church.他，必恭必敬，把谋求教会的利益当做他那光荣职责的主要目标。
4.(personified) person of honour,person of elevated sentiments,person of uprightness有荣誉感的人，有高尚情操的人，正直的人。
△H.VIII.1.2.126:“Things to strike honour sad. ”使得高尚的人听了大为悲伤的事情。
5.high rank,dignity 高贵身份，尊贵。
△ H.VIII.1.1.137:“And from a mouth of honour quite cry down This Ipswich fellow’s insolence；”(Buckingham is emphasizing his nobility.)用我这尊贵的嘴压倒这个伊普斯威契贱种的傲慢无礼。
△H.VIII.2.3.97:“honour’s train / Is longer than his foreskirt.”尊荣后边拖的下摆总比它的前襟要长得多。
6. men of rank and honour有地位有荣誉的人，显贵之人。
△Mac.3.4.40 (39):“Here had we now our country’s honour roofed，”现在我们全国的显贵都会集在这个屋顶之下了。
7. reputation,concern for reputation 名誉，名誉心。
△Oth.5.2.243 (245): “But why should honour outlive honesty?”可是荣誉本身既不存在，还关心名誉干什么？
△H.VIII.4.2.71: “To keep mine honour from corruption，”使我的名誉不致受到歪曲。
8. esteem,respect,homage尊重，尊敬，敬意。
△H.V.3.2.28 (26):“These be good humours! your honour wins bad humours.”这可真算是好脾气！ 你对他尊敬，却得到了侮辱。
△ 2H.VI.2.2.61:“That shall salute our rightful sovereign / With honour of his birthright to the crown.”向我们的合法君王致敬，对他那世袭的王位继承权表示崇敬。
△H.VIII.4.2.168 (167): “When I am dead, good wench,Let me be used with honour；” 好姑娘，我死之后，要让人们给我一定的哀荣。
△H.VIII. 5.2.25 (26):“Is this the honour they do one another? / ’ Tis well there’s one above ’em yet.”(one above ’em: God or Henry VIII. )这就是他们彼此之间表示的尊重吗？ 幸亏在他们之上还有这么一个人。(按：“一个人”指亨利八世自己或上帝。)9. mark of respect.i. e. not fame but a material reward尊敬的标志，（指）物质报酬。
△ 1H.IV.5.4.144(140): “If your father will do me any honour,so;if not,let him kill the next Percy himself.”如果你父亲给我奖赏，很好；否则下回再来一个波西，就让他去杀好了。
10. chastity,purity贞洁，纯洁。
△Ado.4.1.33:“She’s but the sign and semblance of her honour.”她的贞洁不过是虚有其表。
△H.VIII.2.3.76:“Beauty and honour in her are so mingled.That they have caught the King；”她真是美貌和纯洁一身兼备，难怪把国王吸引住了。
11.❶reputation名誉。
❷chastity贞洁。
△Oth.4.1.14:“She is protectress of her honour too; / May she give that?”她的名誉(又译：贞洁)也是属于她的；难道名誉(又译：贞洁)也可以送人吗？
Phrases:
child of honour: youth of noble birth promising honour in his future life荣誉的骄子（原指有光辉前程的贵族青年）。
△H.VIII.4.1.5: “Didst thou not tell me,Griffith,as thou led’st me,/ That the great child of hon-our,Cardinal Wolsey,/ Was dead?”葛利菲斯，你刚才搀着我的时候，是不是告诉我说，那位天之骄子，沃尔西红衣主教，死了？
cloth of honour: canopy 华盖。
△H.VIII.4.1.47:“They that bear / The cloth of honour over her,arefour barons / Of the Cinque-Ports.”为她高举着华盖的是五港的四位男爵。
honour's thought: thought of honour,idea of win-ning honour光荣的思想，赢得荣誉的念头。
△H.V.2.Cho.3: “and honour's thought / Reigns solely in the breastof every man.”在每个人心里想的只是为国争光。
in honour: i. e. as a moral duty为了荣誉；（指）作为道德责任。
△Oth.5.2.294 (295): “For nought I did inhate,but all in honour.”因为我所做的事，没有 一件是出于仇恨，都是为了荣誉。
take it upon one's honour: swear by one's honour凭…的名誉起誓。
△Wiv.2.2.13: “I took't upon minehonour thou hadst it not.”我曾以我的名誉为誓你没有拿它。
honourvt.
1. show respect向…表示恭敬。
△1H.VI.5.3.50:“Whoart thou? Say,that I may honour thee.”你是谁？ 说吧，我好对你表示恭敬。
2. raise to dignity,ennoble提升（到高官显位），使高贵。
△Mac.1.7.32:“He hath honoured me of late，”他最近还给了我尊荣。 |