| 词组 | moral, morale |
| 释义 | moral, morale We have on hand a good number of handbooks and schoolbooks that try to distinguish these two words on the most simplistic of lines. However, if you look up these two nouns in a good dictionary, you will see that they are intimately intertwined. The chief problem seems to be the sense "esprit de corps." In present-day English morale is the usual spelling for this sense; moral is likely to be considered a misspelling. But it is not; the OED shows that moral was the original spelling for this sense. It was the spelling in French, and the sense was taken over from the French. And current dictionaries, such as Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, still recognize this sense as one of the meanings of moral. We recommend, however, that you use morale for the "esprit de corps" sense—most people do. Few, if any, use morale instead of moral for the lesson in a story. |
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