moral necessity

基本解釋

What we did was a moral necessity.
我們做了在道義上非做不可的事。
"We feel that there is a certain moral necessity to make known the terrible facts, " a missionary, Miner Searle Bates, wrote.
“我們覺得應(yīng)該讓人們知道這個(gè)悲慘的事實(shí)，這絕對是道義上的需要”一位委員會的成員Miner Searle Bates這樣寫道。
And for the United States, this is a matter of moral and pragmatic necessity.
對于美國而言，這個(gè)問題具有道德和實(shí)際的必要性。

If they acted with a kind of mechanical necessity or even geometric necessity, they could not possibly be moral laws in that way.
如果這些法則有機(jī)械上,或者幾何上的必須性的話，它們就不能被稱作道德法則。
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In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.
換言之，正如法官常說的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,當(dāng)然我不認(rèn)為，一句情有可原,就能為盜竊，謀殺以及其他違法行為正名，但有時(shí)，情有可原的程度,確實(shí)可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。
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Secretary Rumsfeld has indicated that the President perceives this as a "moral" obligation, as well as a strategic necessity.
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Such calculations are far from sinister, but are an absolute necessity of continued existence and, as such, perfectly moral.
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