As a young man he had wanted to be an architect, but he became a capable composer of operas, a conductor and a decent director.

他年轻的时候梦想当一名建筑家，但后来成为了小有名气的歌剧作曲家，指挥家和导演。

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Would any decent man be an intimate friend of one who thinks like this?

一个正直的人，会和有这种想法的人成为密友吗？

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He treats her the way any decent man would treat a girlfriend — he takes her out on the weekends to sing karaoke or take purikura, photo-booth pictures imprinted on a sheet of tiny stickers.

他就像每个好男人对自己的女朋友那样对待她——周末带她出去唱K，拍大头贴。

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"Calderon's public approval is now at 69 percent the highest of his administration because the people perceive that he is a decent man that handled the swine flu outbreak judiciously and that he is doing his level best to combat the narco-traffickers,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

I mean,how can we say that we want Karzai to do something about his brother's alleged narcotics activities, while apparently the CIA has been paying the same brother?" Former U.S.ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann tells VOA he believes President Karzai to be a decent man, but points out that he does not have a great deal of actual power outside of Kabul and has to be very careful about alienating some people.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

One comes away from Mr. Rosengren's biography with a firm notion of Hank Greenberg as a decent human being, a man of integrity and honor, what Jews call a mensch.

WSJ: Book Review: Hank Greenberg

They were cautioned against alcohol, tobacco, and gum chewing, and were told that they should consider it a miracle of God if any decent man ever wanted to marry them.

NEWYORKER: Stone Mattress

Spencer Hays is a very decent man, almost spiritual, says Jay Mazur, president of Unite, the big clothing workers union with about 3, 000 members working at Hays-owned companies.

FORBES: An American original