virtue

make a virtue of (a) necessity derive some credit or benefit from an unwelcome obligation.

☞ This is a concept found in Latin in the writings of St Jerome: facis de necessitate virtutem 'you make a virtue of necessity'. It passed into Old French (faire de necessité vertu) and was apparently first used in English around 1374 by Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde.

2002Australian Financial Review Making in the best manner a virtue out of a necessity he went native with great success.

of easy virtue: seeeasy.

词组	virtue
释义	virtue make a virtue of (a) necessity derive some credit or benefit from an unwelcome obligation. ☞ This is a concept found in Latin in the writings of St Jerome: facis de necessitate virtutem 'you make a virtue of necessity'. It passed into Old French (faire de necessité vertu) and was apparently first used in English around 1374 by Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde. 2002Australian Financial Review Making in the best manner a virtue out of a necessity he went native with great success. of easy virtue: seeeasy.
随便看	go for a Burton go for a burton go for broke go for it go for the burn go for the doctor go for the jugular go for the kill go for your tea go from strength to strength go gangbusters go gold go great guns go halves go halves (or shares) go hand in hand go hot and cold go hot and cold going going, going, gone! going on going strong go in off the deep end go it go it alone