above-board

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參見:aboveboardabove board

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詞源[编辑]

above +‎ board。首次記錄於1610年。

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形容詞[编辑]

above-board (無比較級)

  1. 光明正大的,合法公正(首次記錄於16世紀晚期。)[1]
    Fair and aboveboard.
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    • 2013年5月15日,Stephen Lemons,“Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe”,出自 Phoenix New Times[1], archived from the original on 11 March 2019:
      Nothing illegal about any of this to my knowledge. Indeed, this is the very above-board racket of running an independent political committee. Everyone does it. Left, right, center and none of the above. And anyway, why shouldn't a true pay-triot get paid?
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    • 2018年3月26日,Maya Kosoff,“Zuckerberg hits users with the hard truth: You agreed to this”,出自 Vanity Fair[2]:
      Over the weekend, Android owners were displeased to discover that Facebook had been scraping their text-message and phone-call metadata, in some cases for years, an operation hidden in the fine print of a user agreement clause until Ars Technica reported. Facebook was quick to defend the practice as entirely aboveboard—small comfort to those who are beginning to realize that, because Facebook is a free service, they and their data are by necessity the products.
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副詞[编辑]

above-board (不可比)

  1. 合法公開(首次記錄於16世紀晚期。)[1]

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參考資料[编辑]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “above-board”, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th版, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, 页7