Held to BE preoccupied with respectability and material values. 渴求名利的执迷于社会地位和物质财富的
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Anything that you may be able to tell us as to HIS financial respectability and management will be appreciated by us. 贵方如能告知此人财政方面的信用与经营业务情况，则感激不尽。
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Under their stagnant respectability are whirlpools of evil and erotic Passion 在他们一本正经的体面外表下,满肚子的邪恶和情欲。
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Shelton pondered as he passed house after house of such intense respectability that even dogs were known to bark at them 谢尔顿走过一幢一幢的房屋，心里一直在思量着。这些住宅都显出不可一世的堂皇气概，以至于有人说狗都会对着这些房子汪汪吠叫。
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