respect /rɪˈspɛkt/ CET4 TEM4 ( respecting, respected, respects )

• 1. 

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

  例：

  I want him to respect me as a career woman.

  我要他把我作为一个职业女性来尊重。

• 2. 

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

  例：

  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

  例：

  Finally, trying to respect her wishes, I said I'd leave.

  最后，设法尊重她的意愿，我说我会离开。

• 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

  例：

  They will campaign for respect for aboriginal rights and customs.

  他们将开展尊重土著居民权利和风俗的活动。

• 6. 

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

  例：

  It is about time tour operators respected the law and their own code of conduct.

  现在该是旅行社经营者们遵守法律和他们自己的行业规范的时候了。

• 7. 

  N-UNCOUNT Respect is also a noun. 遵守

  例：

  ...respect for the law and the rejection of the use of violence.

  …对法律的遵守和对使用暴力的摒弃。

• 8. 

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

  例：

  With all due respect, I hardly think that's the point.

  请恕我冒犯，我不认为那是要点。

• 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]

  例：

  Carl had asked him to visit the hospital and to pay his respects to Francis.

  卡尔已要求他去那所医院向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. 在这方面; 在许多方面

  例：

  Within the Department of Justice are several drug-fighting agencies. The lead agency in this respect is the DEA.

  司法部内部有几个禁毒机构，在这方面的领导机构是禁毒执行中心。

• 11. 

  PHRASE You use with respect to to say what something relates to. 关于; 至于 [正式]

  例：

  Parents often have little choice with respect to the way their child is medically treated.

  至于他们孩子被医治的方式,父母通常少有选择的余地。

• 12. 

  → see also respected