That makes it very difficult for anyone to take a decent photograph.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

For instance, are blue collar workers at the university getting paid a decent wage, are they compensated fairly.

比如，大学工人们,的报酬是否过低，他们是否获得应有的补偿。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Joseph's betrayal by his brothers, his decent into Egypt, set the stage, not only for the reformation of his brothers' characters, which is an important part of the story, but for the descent of all of the Israelites into Egypt, so as to survive widespread famine.

约瑟夫兄弟们的背叛，他进入埃及，奠定了基础，不仅为他兄弟们品格的修复，这是故事中非常重要的一部分，也为所有以色列人进入埃及，为了幸免于蔓延的饥荒。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

(Speaking) Turay would like to become a fully qualified teacher so he can provide a better education for the children in Kasokra and also make a decent wage.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That is a very important difference that was, you had to act in such a way as to make life possible and decent, and for the Greeks that always meant being part of a decent community, the polis.

这也是个非常重要的区别,你得活出体面来,对于古希腊人而言就是,成为体面的社区即城邦的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选