One way to hold this word: honour + -able, meaning able to be honoured. Picture other people looking at something and deciding it is worth their respect. That look can land on an action, such as carrying a lost phone to the station office. It can land on a person who keeps a promise when keeping it costs them. It can land on a deal that leaves nobody cheated and nobody . And it can be frozen into a fixed label that sits in front of a name, where it no longer says anything about the person and only marks the office they hold.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces honourable through Middle English and Old French honorable to Latin honorabilis, from honoro, to honour; by surface analysis it is honour + -able. The modern uses still sit close to that literal sense of able to be honoured.
根據 Wiktionary，honourable 經由中古英語、古法文 honorable 上溯到拉丁文 honōrābilis，來自 honōrō（給予敬意）；從字面拆開就是 honour + -able。今天的各種用法都還貼著「可以被給予敬意的」這個字面意思。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1016688136:3067)
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
honourableadj
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UK standard spelling of honorable.
- It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
- The days of steam on the railways of Kent are now indeed numbered, and when stage two of the electrification is completed through Tonbridge to Ashford, Folkestone and Dover a long and honourable chapter in transport will be virtually closed.
honourablenoun
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UK standard spelling of honorable.
- So she invites her father and sister to a second day's dinner (if those sides, or ontrys, as she calls 'em, weren't served yesterday, I'm d—d), and to meet City folks and littery men, and keeps the Earls and the Ladies, and the Honourables to herself.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。