do the right thing

基本解釋

He can do the right thing for the country.
他能爲這個國家做正確的事情。
The party was here long before us, and we want it to be here long after we have gone. We must do the right thing by it.
我們的黨在我們之前就已長期存在，我們也想讓它在我們離開後走得更遠，也因此我們必須做正確的事。
If we can’t get people to care about the cause itself, however, perhaps we can get people to do the right thing for the wrong reasons.
如果我們無法讓人們關(guān)心這個事業(yè)本身，那麼我們也許可以讓他們出於其他的原因而去做正確的事情。

Huck's heart leads him to do the right thing, even when everything he has been taught tells him it is wrong.
On the other hand, as I said, never trust a programmer to do the right thing so we're going to check it.
另外，如我之前提到的，別相信程序員會一直保持正確,所以我們才要。
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Right. But you're a upstanding modern Muslim but you're just trying to get by, you're just trying to do the right thing by your own faith tradition.
是的，如果說您是個非常優(yōu)秀的現(xiàn)代穆斯林,但是您衹是勉強過得去，您衹是在試圖做正確的事,根據(jù)您自己的信仰傳統(tǒng)。
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And next week, Congress is going to have another chance to do the right thing.
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