ethic

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eth·ic /ˈeθɪk/ AWL noun

1 [countableC]BELIEVE a general idea or belief that influences people’s behaviour and attitudes 伦理；道德体系

The old ethic of hard work has given way to a new ethic of instant gratification.

旧有的崇尚勤勉的道德观已被及时行乐的新观念所取代。

2 ethics [plural]GOOD/MORAL moral rules or principles of behaviour for deciding what is right and wrong 道德标准，道德规范

a report on the ethics of gene therapy

关于基因疗法的伦理学问题的报告

professional/business/medical ethics (=the moral rules relating to a particular profession) 职业道德/商业道德/医德

public concern about medical ethics

公众对医德的关注

a code of ethics

道德准则

Examples from the Corpus

professional/business/medical ethics• He promised to take duplicitous physicians before a medical ethics board and strip them of their credentials.• This type of secondary prevention does however raise serious and controversial issues about social and medical ethics.• All this leaves business ethics in a state of unhelpful flux.• The big beasts of medical ethics have been locking horns, the rationalists against the religious as usual.• I had a conversation with Marjorie Kelly, editor of Business Ethics magazine, on a hot summer morning.• They also include a critique of conventional news values and a list of professional ethics.• I was a lawyer, a professional man who worked within a set of professional ethics.• Businessmen must ensure that they meet the terms of business ethics imposed by the media.

Examples from the Corpus

ethic• the Judeo-Christian ethic• At the time, Gingrich said a speaker should step aside when questions about his ethics are being investigated by in Congress.• Either that, or a different investment ethic prevails there.• Suddenly the climate was imbued with a new Puritan ethic, not the work ethic but the breeding ethic.• Furthermore, he admitted to having given the ethics panel untrue information when it investigated those projects.• This insight into the ethics of international trade comes from the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, a research organization.• It was my introduction to the ethics of science.• Perhaps worse, where it does give lip-service to ethics, it is to an ethics divorced from moral sensitivity.

Origin ethic

(1400-1500) Old French ethique, from Greek ethikos, from ethos; → ETHOS

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