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词汇 honour-bound
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Definition of honour-bound in English:

honour-bound

adjectiveˈɒnəbaʊnd
  • with infinitive Morally obliged to do something.

    the state is honour-bound to listen and act
    I feel honour-bound to pay this money
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am launching my book on the 25th and I am honor-bound to Simon and Schuster not to comment on the book before that date.
    • Our partnership has rules that we are both honor-bound to follow.
    • If your father were to insist I marry you, I would agree that I am honour-bound to do so and I would comply.
    • We have a strict code of ethics which we are honor-bound to follow.
    • Even though there are five officials presiding over a fencing contest, fencers are still honour-bound to acknowledge all hits they receive.
    • Are you then honour-bound to automatically defend your mates?
    • In a period when even small-scale collectors often felt honor-bound to lend paintings to public exhibitions, period exhibition records document almost no collecting activity by any member of the Stevens family.
    • I told them I considered myself honor-bound by what I had said to the sergeant that night, and would not transmit anything without his agreement.
    • Although she wanted to marry him, she didn't want him to feel honor-bound to marry her if there was someone else he loved.
    • Since he was vaguely right, I now feel honor-bound to apologize to my buddy, here on a weblog that I'm certain he'll never see.
    • Just because you hate the shirt your auntie gave you, it does not mean the shop is honour-bound to take it back.
    • One article alone brought him 300 letters from members of the public and he felt honour-bound to reply to all of them.
    • Placed in that situation I have felt honour-bound to reply frankly and at some length.
    • If he possessed evidence of wrongdoing, he was honor-bound to take that to a grand jury and secure an indictment.
    • He contended that, as a loyal servant of the crown, he had been honor-bound to rid the country of a detestable tyrant who had perverted French royal institutions.
    • I feel honor-bound to correct the attribution from this day forward when I pass it on.
    • It was a cheap election ploy that he felt honour-bound to implement.
    • I know full well that Anne will feel honour-bound to comply with her mother's wishes.
    • I say to you that you are honour-bound, from the point of view of your reputation, to give that ruling.
    • It's hard work, and frustrating, to try and keep such students in the loop, but it's something I feel honour-bound to do.
    Synonyms
    indebted, obligated, under an obligation, obliged, bound, duty-bound
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