We honor Presidents Washington and Lincoln because they embodied the values and character that ennoble public service.

我们纪念华盛顿总统和林肯总统是因为他们代表了使公共服务神圣的价值观和品性。

His conduct this morning is noble, thought the marquis, so I will ennoble him myself.

他今天早上的行为是高尚的，侯爵心想，所以我要他加冕。

To a head of bureau, the result seemed ennobling.

对局局长来说，结果似乎是高尚的。

And I do believe that Italy really purifies and ennobles all who visit her.

我确实相信， 意大利确实净化了所有来访的人， 使他们高尚。

It acts, it acts frightfully (I speak for myself), but not in an ennobling way.

它的行为，它的行为非常怕（我为己说话）， 但不是以高尚的方式。

Your love—the most tender and devoted love which ever ennobled the heart of man—cannot draw me back.

你的爱——最温柔、最忠诚的爱，曾经使人的心变得高贵——不能让我退缩。

And a peroration addressed to women should have something, you will agree, particularly exalting and ennobling about it.

你会意， 篇针对女性的演讲应该有所作为，尤其是对它的赞美和高尚。

" I think the same as ever of you, Eustacia. Nothing of that sort can degrade you—you ennoble the occupation of your husband."

“跟从前的看法个样，游苔莎。那种事绝不会贬低你——你使你丈夫的职业变崇高了。”

At the culmination of their power, the drama was their chief literary form — the drama, which is but speech ennobled, connected, clarified.

在他们的权力达到顶峰时，戏剧是他们的主要文学形式——戏剧，它不过是高贵的、相互联系的、澄清的语言。

If a European noble  wished to expand his wealth, the only means he might consider was to appropriate the lands of  an equally ennobled neighbor.

如果位欧洲贵族想要扩大己的财富，他能考虑的方法就是侵占样尊贵的邻居的土地。

Our language ennobles meat at the expense of veg: strong, muscular types are " beefy" , lazy people are " couch potatoes" , unresponsive ones " vegetables" .

我们的语言以牺牲蔬菜为代价来崇尚肉食：强壮的肌肉型人士是“牛肉味的”（beefy），懒惰的人却是“沙发土豆”，反应迟钝的人则是“蔬菜型”。

So Socrates is someone who taught me the beauty of the philosophic life, the beauty of ideas, just so inspiring to me and ennobling to me.

所以苏格拉底教会了我哲学生活的美丽、思想的美丽，对我来说是如此的鼓舞人心，让我变得崇高。

Yet whilst wealth enervates men; and women live, as it were, by their personal charms, how, can we expect them to discharge those ennobling duties which equally require exertion and self-denial.

然而，虽然财富使人精力充沛；女人以说是靠个人魅力生活，我们怎么能指望她们履行那些样需要努力和克己的崇高职责呢。

Usually, when artists looked in the mirror, they liked what they saw, and what they saw were men, young or old, whose features were ennobled by their calling to bring virtue, beauty and grace into the world.

通常，当艺术家看着镜子，他们喜欢那些己看到的，那些年轻或年老的男人，那些角色因其呼吁要这个世界带来德行、美好和优雅，而显得如此高贵。

Let her only determine, without being too anxious about present happiness, to acquire the qualities that ennoble a rational being, and a rough, inelegant husband may shock her taste without destroying her peace of mind.

让她只下定决心，不要太担心眼前的幸福，获得使理性的人变得高尚的品质，个粗鲁、不优雅的丈夫能会震撼她的品味，而不会破坏她内心的平静。

She knew it for what it was; Mr. Bell's kindly sophistry that nearly all men were guilty of equivocal actions, and that the motive ennobled the evil, had never had much real weight with her.

她知道它是什么。贝尔先生善意的诡辩说几乎所有的人都犯了模棱两的行为，动机使罪恶高尚，但她从来没有真正重视过。

Such proof as he offered came, therefore, as a kind of crowning luxury, the flower of a profoundly rooted sentiment; and here again the instinctive reserves and defenses would have seemed to vulgarize what his trust ennobled.

因此，他提供的这种证明是种至高无上的奢侈，是根深蒂固的情感之花。在这里，本能的保留和防御似乎又使他的信任变得高尚了。

Rose let them flow undisturbed while she silently caressed the bent head, wondering, with a wistful look in her own wet eyes, what this mysterious passion was which could so move, ennoble, and beautify the beings whom it blessed.

罗斯让它们不受干扰地流淌，时她静静地抚摸着低垂的脑袋，她湿润的眼睛里带着渴望的神情，想知道这种神秘的激情是什么，它能如此感动、高尚和美化它所祝福的人。