天经地义 meaning in English
(be regarded) as unalterable principles; an unquestionable moral truth; as having the sanction of heaven as revealed to reason; perfectly justified; the principles of heaven and earth -- right and proper; universally accepted principle
Examples
- Perhaps that was the deepest truth in ridges's nature .
在里奇斯的思想上，这大概可以算是天经地义第一条了。 - Indeed, it was an axiom with her that the cook can do no wrong .
首席厨司做事出不了差错，这对她来说，简直是天经地义。 - It had become a religion with him to preserve in good condition all that had lapsed from his mother's hands to his own .
他把他母亲留给他的一切手泽永远好好地保存，他认为是一种天经地义。 - She thought it was no more than fair that one man should cheat and another be cheated to serve her convenience .
她觉得为了她方便，男人们一个欺骗，一个被欺骗，只不过是一件天经地义的事情。 - What would be hardship and distress and injustice in his own class is a cool matter of course in another one .
在他自己阶级中被认为是艰苦、悲惨和不平的事，放在另一个阶级中，他们却觉得是天经地义。