3N-COUNT 优点;长处 The virtue of something is an advantage or benefit that it has, especially in comparison with something else. 优点;长处
There was no virtue in returning to Calvi the way I had come. [+ in]
沿着我来的路线返回卡尔维并不可取。
Its other great virtue, of course, is its hard-wearing quality.
它的另一个突出优点当然就是经久耐用。
4PREP-PHRASE 靠;凭借;由于;因为 You use by virtue of to explain why something happens or is true. 靠;凭借;由于;因为 [formal]
The article stuck in my mind by virtue of one detail.
由于一个细节,这篇文章在我脑海里印象深刻。
Mr Olaechea has British residency by virtue of his marriage.
奥拉伊奇先生通过结婚而取得在英国的永久居留权。
5PHRASE (假装)心甘情愿地做(迫不得已的事) If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to. (假装)心甘情愿地做(迫不得已的事)
The movie makes a virtue out of its economy.
这部电影充分利用了其有限的成本。
Quotations
Virtue is the fount whence honour springsChristopher MarloweTamburlaine the Great
Virtue is its own rewardCiceroDe Finibus
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain setFrancis BaconEssays
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubiesBible: Proverbs
For 'tis some virtue, virtue to commendWilliam Congreve
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunkJohn MiltonComus
Against the threats Of malice or of sorcery, or that power Which erring men call chance, this I hold firm, Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralledJohn MiltonComus
It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disasterRebecca WestThere Is No Conversation
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fireMark TwainThe Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat... that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contraryJohn MiltonAreopagitica