gentility

n. 有教养，文雅；上流阶层

n.

高贵的地位[出身]；有风度，彬彬有礼；因循旧习；

英英释义

gentility[ dʒen'tiliti ]

n.elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

同义词：breedinggenteelness

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

His gentility is purely made up.
他的文雅都是装出来的。

He thinks fine clothes are a mark of gentility.
他认为衣著讲究是身分高贵的标志。

He took her hand with discreet gentility.
他温文尔雅地牵着她的手。

权威例句

gentility (n.)

mid-14c., "nobility of birth, gentle birth," from Old French gentilité (14c.), from Latin gentilitatem (nominative gentilitas) "relationship in the same family or clan," from gentilis "of the same family or clan" (see gentle; also compare gentry). From 1640s as "social superiority." Meaning "state of being gentile" is rare.

1. The hotel has an air of faded gentility.

这家宾馆有一种没落的贵族氛围。

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2. He took her hand with discreet gentility.

他温文尔雅地牵着她的手。

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3. She thinks expensive clothes are a mark of gentility.

她认为昂贵的服装是身份高贵的标志。

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4. I like his gentility and humour.

我喜欢他的风度和幽默感。

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5. Gentility is nothing but ancient riches.

高贵的身分只是依凭上代的财产。

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6. He thinks fine clothes are a mark of gentility.

他认为衣着讲究是身分高贵的标志。

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7. Unless you washed your hands, you had no claim to gentility.

不洗手，就没有资格要求别人认为你有教养。

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8. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken.

时髦是逃离凡俗的优雅，并害怕被取代。

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9. It made Lydia wonder whether gentility might be a product of genetic engineering.

它使利迪娅考虑文雅是不是遗传工程的成果。

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10. People are nice but he has a gentility and open kindness to him that I loved working with.

人人都很好，但是他却独有一种绅士风度，让我很开心和他共事。

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11. He surrounds himself with all the trappings of gentility - dogs, horses, and fine paintings.

他身边满是象征高贵身份的东西——狗，马以及精美的画。

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12. Susan Mann's Ningbo women benefited from their reputation for diligence, skill, and gentility.

曼素恩研究中的宁波妇女得益于其勤劳、手巧、明事理的好名声。

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13. The powerful combination of gentility and brashness she acknowledges comes her way by genetics.

她自认为她的温文尔雅与"粗鲁莽撞"的强力结合来自遗传。"

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14. Owing to the natural limit of the vocal cords, the roaring only betrays the gentility of the cat.

也许是声带的天然性，怎么听都有猫的温柔。

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15. I am going to hunt words that have not lost their sting, and it may be I shall have to go back to gentility to find them.

我要找出那些还在伤害着我的言语，也许这需要我再象以前那样体面一些，才可以找到它们。

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16. All his Southern gentlewoman are delicate and sensitive women who best represent the culture and gentility of the Old South.

她们娇弱而敏感，都是来自美国南方上流社会的南方淑女，是旧南方文化和教养的最佳代言人。

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17. Pink roses: elegance, gracefulness, refinement, gentility, style and poetic romance but being combined with fun and lightheartedness.

粉红玫瑰：高雅，优雅，精致，温婉，风格和诗意浪漫，但又结合乐趣和轻松愉快。

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18. Again, a kind of gentility and knights spirit — chivalry — had come into being in the restraint of the church and social environment.

再以后，在教会和社会环境的约束下，一种绅士风度和骑士精神形成。

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19. Old Mr. Letterblair, the accredited legal adviser of three generations of New York gentility, throned behind his mahogany desk in evident perplexity.

老莱特·布赖先生，这位受纽约上层阶级三代人信托的法律顾问，端坐在他的红木写字台后面，显然遇到了麻烦。

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20. If learning and gentility are signs of civilization, perhaps our almost-big brains are straining against their residual atavism, struggling to expand.

如果学习和温婉是文明的标志，那么也许可以说我们那不算太大的大的大脑正在超越落后的残余，努力扩展着自己。

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21. The northern spirit was free and individualistic; the southern made for great estates and a conscious gentility ruling over a dusky subject multitude.

北方精神强调的是自由和个性，而南方精神则倾向于大庄园，它支持有觉悟的上层阶级统治忧郁、臣服的民众。

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22. Chivalric prowess of the medieval knights represented by Richard Lionheart had the profound influence on the gentility of the United Kingdom and citizen's characters.

以狮心王理查为代表的中世纪骑士的英勇品质对近代以来英国绅士风度的形成以及公民的人格品质产生了深远的影响。

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23. In contrast to that original office, Parker's new office (opened in 1995, approximately ten miles away) has a far more gracious feeling of Southern gentility and success.

和之前的办公室相比，帕克的新办公室(1995年开张，大约10英里之外)更有南方的高贵和成功的感觉。

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24. I speculated that this bifurcated sleeping arrangement had something to do with Southern gentility, Papa’s late-night ham radio habit, or some unseen rift in their marriage.

我曾经猜测分室而睡可能与南方绅士风度有关，或者与爷爷晚间听收音机的习惯有关，再或者与他们婚姻中不易察觉的裂痕有关。

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25. Goodall had no academic training, having grown up in the middle-class gentility of Bournemouth in the postwar years, a time when women were expected to be wives and little else.

古德没有受过任何学术培训，她成长于战后伯恩茅斯有教养的中产家庭，那时人们认为女子无才是德，只希望妇女成为主妇。

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26. Goodall had no academic training, having grown up in the middle-class gentility of Bournemouth in the postwar years, a time when women were expected to be wives and little else.

古德没有受过任何学术培训，她成长于战后伯恩茅斯有教养的中产家庭，那时人们认为女子无才是德，只希望妇女成为主妇。

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27. He swaggered out of the room, with much elegance and gentility.

他昂首阔步地从屋子里走出去，气度雍容，姿态优美。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

28. He thinks fine clothes are a mark of gentility.

他认为衣着讲究是身分高贵的标志.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

29. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtake.

时髦，是逃亡自庸俗而又惟恐被？上的假斯文。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

30. Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.

死要面子活受罪。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

31. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of is overtake.

时髦，是逃亡自庸俗而又惟恐被?上的假斯文。

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32. His gentility is purely made up .

他的文雅都是装出来的。

-- 来源 -- life - 汉英

33. shabby gentility

摆阔气;装体面

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

34. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken.

时髦，是逃亡自庸俗而又惟恐被赶上假斯文。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

35. Yankees haven't sense enough to know that you haven't any gentility.

他们呆头呆脑的，没意识到你这个人根本是没有什么教养的。

-- 来源 -- 飘（部分） - piao45

36. He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility(James Joyce)

为了给人有贵族气派的印象，他说话粗暴(詹姆斯 乔伊丝)

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考