do the right thing

基本解释

He can do the right thing for the country.
他能为这个国家做正确的事情。
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.
我们的党在我们之前就已长期存在，我们也想让它在我们离开后走得更远，也因此我们必须做正确的事。
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.
如果我们无法让人们关心这个事业本身，那么我们也许可以让他们出于其他的原因而去做正确的事情。

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，别相信程序员会一直保持正确,所以我们才要。
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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，如果说您是个非常优秀的现代穆斯林,但是您只是勉强过得去，您只是在试图做正确的事,根据您自己的信仰传统。
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And next week, Congress is going to have another chance to do the right thing.
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