virtue

美徳

正直さや忍耐強さなど、人の性格にあるよいところ。

やさしい英語で： A good quality in a person’s character, such as honesty or patience.

• Patience is a useful virtue.
• Honesty was one of her greatest virtues.
• He has many virtues, including kindness.

類義語： good quality, strength

反対語： vice

よく使う表現： a virtue, virtue of patience, personal virtue

長所、利点

人や物の役に立つところやよいところ。

やさしい英語で： A useful or good feature of someone or something.

• The phone has the virtue of being easy to use.
• This method has several virtues.
• Her proposal has one clear virtue: simplicity.

使い方： the virtue of something (The main virtue of this plan is its low cost.)

類義語： advantage, merit, strength

反対語： drawback

よく使う表現： virtue of something, chief virtue, great virtue

美徳、徳

よい行いをし、道徳的に正しいことをする性質。

やさしい英語で： The quality of behaving well and doing what is morally right.

• She believed in the value of virtue.
• Their laws were meant to encourage virtue.
• We admired his virtue as well as his courage.

類義語： goodness, moral integrity

反対語： vice

よく使う表現： moral virtue, life of virtue, virtue and vice