1. Besides being an upright and respectable woman she was also a very sensible one.
    她是个正派体面的女人，也是个非常明智的女人。

2. We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years.
    在小说中，我们经常读到一个表面上受人尊重的人物或家庭，却有着某种多年不为人所知的骇人听闻的秘密。

3. How dare you talk to a respectable woman like that?
    你怎么可以对一个良家女子说那样的话?

4. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him — which she might have done if she had not been a respectable woman.
    她想在夜色里伸出手去触摸他--要不是个正派女子，她真会这么做。

5. It was respectable to be a doctor, but not a surgeon who split people´s blood.
    作一个医生是受人敬重的，但作一个使人流血的外科医生却是另一回事。

6. For more than half an hour 38 respectable Brooklyn, New York citizens watched a man attack and stab (刺杀) a woman three separate times.
    在半个多小时的时间里，纽约布鲁克林区38名体面的居民旁观了一名男子三次袭击并最终刺死一名女子的过程。