They justify villainy in the name of high ideals.

他们打着实现远大理想的幌子为他们的恶行开脱。

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She found it hard to live up to his high ideals.

她觉得很难达到他的高标准要求。

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He is a man of great dignity, superior talents and high ideals.

他是一个很有尊严的人，具有超人的才华和崇高的理想。

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I mean I do hope that the fact that I'm interested in in rock and roll isn't perceived by some, as it may well be, to sully the ideals of the Louise Center for the arts and these high-minded things.

我当然希望，我对摇滚的,喜爱，在一些人眼中，不会玷污,路易斯艺术中心这种高雅的理念。

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But he is a man of great dignity, superior talents and high ideals.

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To many Dutch observers, the country's famed tradition of tolerance is a reflection not so much of high ideals as of pragmatism.

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The former, the simple-lifers, arrive in summer with high ideals, but soon discover the delights of social security when winter winds blow their crops away.

ECONOMIST: Beware the expression sea-girt