public-spirited
热心公益,热心公益的,急公好义,热心公益的人
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- : having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
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When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.
As such it is now presented to the public for whatever meed of praise or censure it is found to deserve.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
Many of these have been seen in the Corcoran Art Gallery and in other public exhibitions.
It was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.
It will be a busy session; and I want to see if I can't become a useful public man.