ADJECTIVE | VERB + RESPECTABILITY | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤bourgeois, middle-class資產階級的/中產階級的社會地位▸➤academic, intellectual, political, scientific, social學術聲望;知識分子的地位;政治地位;科學聲望;社會聲望➤international國際聲望◇The country has again achieved international respectability after years of isolation.被孤立了幾年之後,該國又重新贏得了國際聲望。VERB + RESPECTABILITY➤achieve, gain得到敬重;獲得好名聲◇The theory has now gained scientific respectability.該理論現在已經獲得了科學上的承認。➤give sth使⋯有聲望➤seek尋求體面PHRASES➤an air of respectability, a veneer of respectability體面的神態/假象