ethic
ethic — 名詞
1. a personal or shared set of ideas about morally good and bad behaviour that dire
倫理規範
引導個人或群體行為的道德原則體系
a personal or shared set of ideas about morally good and bad behaviour that directs the choices a person or a group makes
After watching colleagues cut corners, Noor felt her professional ethic required her to speak up.
看到同事偷工減料，Noor 認為自己的職業道德要求她必須說出來。
ethic + required + action — ethic as binding principle
Benjamin's work ethic was so strong that he arrived at the warehouse before dawn each morning.
Benjamin 的工作倫理非常強，每天天還沒亮就到倉庫準備訂單。
collocation: work ethic + adjective (strong)
The farming families share an ethic of caring for the soil and passing it to the next generation.
山谷裡的農家都抱持著深厚的土地倫理，細心照料土壤並傳給下一代。
Heloísa turned down the marketing job because the company's aggressive sales ethic went against her own values.
Heloísa 婉拒了那份行銷工作，因為該公司激進的銷售倫理違背她自己的價值觀。
- moral code
more formal and often implies a written or explicit set of rules
- principles
broader term that can cover non-moral as well as moral guidelines
- values
focuses on what a person regards as important rather than on behavioural rules
- amorality
the absence of any moral sense or principle
文法句型
ethic + of + noun phrase
adjective + ethic
用法筆記
Frequently appears in fixed collocations such as 'work ethic', 'professional ethic', or 'ethic of service'. The plural form 'ethics' is more common than the singular for referring to abstract moral systems generally; the singular usually picks out one specific code or principle.
常見錯誤
2. the area of philosophy that asks questions about right and wrong, exploring what
倫理學
探討善惡對錯的哲學分支
the area of philosophy that asks questions about right and wrong, exploring what people ought to do and what sort of life is morally worthwhile
In her thesis, Padma compared the treatment of compassion in Buddhist ethic and in David Hume's writings.
Padma 在她的論文中比較了佛教倫理學與 David Hume 著作中對慈悲的探討。
ethic as a comparative philosophical tradition
The university requires all engineering students to take a course on applied ethic before they graduate.
該大學要求所有工程學院的學生在畢業前修讀一門應用倫理學課程。
collocation: applied ethic — field-specific study of moral issues
The conference gathered scholars from law, medicine, and philosophy to debate the future of environmental ethic.
這場會議聚集了法律、醫學和哲學界的學者，共同探討環境倫理學的未來發展。
Piotr's research shows how indigenous communities developed their own frameworks of ethic long before colonial contact.
Piotr 的研究顯示，原住民社群在殖民接觸之前很久就已發展出屬於自己的倫理學架構。
- moral philosophy
the full formal name of the field
文法句型
the study of ethic
ethic as a discipline
用法筆記
The plural form 'ethics' is far more common than 'ethic' when naming this academic discipline. 'Ethic' in this sense appears mostly in academic writing or in compound phrases like 'applied ethic' or 'environmental ethic'.