though the official awards and family education were among the reasons of their emergence, the stress and dissemination of the confucian duteous concepts was actually of more importance.
官方的奖励和家庭的教育固然是导致这一现象产生的原因之一,但理学贞节观的强化及广泛传播当是其一个更为深刻的促成因素。
patient griselda was a chaste and duteous wife;
蓓什特·格里塞尔达是一个贞洁而 顺从的妻子;。
laotse replied, 「men like this can only be regarded as a duteous civil servant or a competent technician. we can't say that they are sage kings or good leaders.」
老子回答:「这样的人我们只能说他是一位尽职的公务员,一位有能力的技术人员,他们还算不上是明王,也算不上是好的领导人。