genteel

美 [d?en?til] 　英 [d?en?ti?l]

• adj.顯得彬彬有禮的；假斯文的；上流社會的；裝體面的
• 網(wǎng)絡有教養(yǎng)的；文雅的；文縐縐

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Four thousand a year is a pretty estate, and he seems a very genteel, steady young man, so I hope Miss Julia will be very happy.

一年四千英鎊是一筆數(shù)目可觀的財產(chǎn)，加上他看上去又是個很有教養(yǎng)、很穩(wěn)重的青年，我想朱莉婭小姐會非常幸福。

Tess could whistle like most other country girls, though the accomplishment was one which she did not care to profess in genteel company.

苔絲同大多數(shù)鄉(xiāng)下姑娘一樣會吹口哨，雖然她在體面人面前不愿承認會這門技藝。

TAKING your hat off at the door may seem like a throwback to a more genteel age.

進門脫帽的禮節(jié)仿佛讓時光倒流，一下子回到了彬彬有禮的年代。

Jane's genteel nature allowed her to be comfortable in posh environments.

（簡優(yōu)雅的天性使得她在上流社會里也能應付自如。）

Her father, Harold Beauchamp, was a banker and her mother, Annie Burnell Dyer, was of genteel origins.

她的父親，哈羅德波尚是一個銀行家和她的母親，安妮Burnell戴爾，是上流社會的起源。

He was only a soft -hearted grateful fellow , and had nothing genteel or polite about him .

他只是一個心腸軟、知道感恩圖報的人，并不懂得什么派頭和禮貌。

It was strangely easy to converse with this genteel hunter.

與這個優(yōu)雅的捕獵者交談輕松得有些奇怪。

Some researchers claim that it was common at this time for genteel women to pluck them off, since they were considered to be unsightly .

一些研究人員聲稱它是常見的在這個時候為柔弱的婦女拿出它們趕走，因為他們被認為是有礙觀瞻。

A shabbily-genteel individual, with a red nose and an old high hat, was sipping a quiet glass of ale alone at one end of the bar.

酒吧的一頭有一個寒酸卻又要體面的人，長著紅鼻子，戴著頂舊禮帽，在那里安安靜靜地喝著淡啤酒。

Mr. Micawber, not a Bit changed, came into the room with a genteel and youthful air.

米考伯先生跟先前完全一樣，優(yōu)游文雅、宛如青年，進了屋里。

The Wang family occupies two rooms. Old Wang and I are considered the genteel folk in the compound. Gentility to be hanged!

王家住著兩間房。我和老王是院子里公認的學問人。天殺的學問！

popular culture takes the place of genteel culture and is therefore elevated into the main stream of social and cultural thoughts.

俗文化取代雅文化上升為社會思想文化之主流。

Its once- raffish waterfront has been transformed into a genteel park, and the old neighborhoods are now dotted with cappuccino shops.

其一處極為粗俗的海岸旁，已經(jīng)變成了一個安靜的公園，周邊有著老居民區(qū)，現(xiàn)在還被點綴了卡布奇諾的商店。

You wonder that Miss Lane could not find someone more genteel than a little country girl to assist her in her office.

你難道以為萊茵小姐就找不到比一個鄉(xiāng)下小姑娘更有教養(yǎng)的助手嗎？

"A man, indeed, is not genteel when he gets drunk; but most vices may be committed very genteelly" (James Boswell).

“一小我，當他喝醉時真實不成能文雅；但年夜大都罪惡卻可能是彬彬有禮地犯下的”（詹姆斯·鮑斯弗爾）

But on at least two issues, such genteel methods are proving inadequate.

但至少在兩個問題上，這樣的柔性手段顯得有些孱弱。

Mr Ferguson presents a thesis that the West risks not the genteel decline of old age so much as collapse.

福格桑提出了一個命題：西方國家冒險不讓一個舊的時代體面的衰落甚至于是衰亡。

In fairness, Goldman was a very different (and far more genteel) firm than Salomon.

公平地說，高盛和薩洛蒙公司是大不相同的（前者更屬于上流社會）。

"Last Man in Tower" depicts a genteel middle-class impoverishment of imagination and hope.

《最后的塔中人》描繪了一個充滿想象與希望而優(yōu)雅的中產(chǎn)階級貧苦生活。

Brighton and Eastbourne, its more genteel neighbours, have reinvented themselves, but Hastings stagnated.

附庸風雅的鄰鎮(zhèn)布萊頓和伊斯特本已經(jīng)開始自我調(diào)整，而黑斯廷斯卻停滯不前了。

As the two argued, say people present, the normally genteel central banker raised his voice with Mr. Sarkozy.

據(jù)當時在場的人回憶，兩人爭論時，一貫溫文爾雅的特里謝也跟薩科奇一樣提高了嗓門。

Because of their genteel, civilized settings and characters, these stories are also known as "cosies" .

由于這類小說的上層社會、文明的背景和角色，它們也被稱為“舒適推理小說”。

Once the powerhouse of the world economy, Japan is now in genteel decline.

作為以前世界經(jīng)濟的發(fā)動機，日本正經(jīng)歷著貴族式的沒落。

He remains a hero to many red shirts, who are mostly rural and working-class, in contrast to the genteel ranks of the conservative groups.

與上流社會的保守組織不同，以農(nóng)民和工人為主的大部分紅衫軍認為他依舊是個英雄。

The "Genteel Lu" brocade has a good permeability, hydroscopic property, and pull resistance.

在“古典路”博科具有良好的透氣性，吸濕財產(chǎn)，拉電阻。

the danes also hold an annual celebration of somewhat less genteel ancestors ? the marauding vikings.

同時丹麥人也為他們不那么體面的老祖先？？維京海盜們舉行著一年一度的慶典。

Although she was poor, she was living in genteel poverty.

盡管她貧窮，但她總想裝出上流社會階層的樣子。

The basement boom began, strangely enough, in the genteel upper-middle class west London suburb of Fulham.

不可思議的是，修建地下室的風潮是從倫敦西部富勒姆近郊的中上社會階層開始風靡起來的。

Such is the modern style of tennis, once the genteel afternoon pastime of the idle rich.

這就是現(xiàn)代網(wǎng)球。在過去，它可是富貴人家用來消磨午后悠閑時光的活動。

Yet many Japanese seem more at ease with the idea of stately decline and genteel isolation.

然而，許多日本人似乎對于本國這種“體面的衰落”和“高貴的孤立”心安理得。

English isn't as encumbered with many of the genteel honorifics of Japanese, nor does it rely so heavily on implication.

英語并不是日語那樣充滿了各種敬語，也不那么大量依賴暗示。

The result was a festival of genteel special-pleading.

結果卻成了上流社會的“詭辯”節(jié)。

Now he is plying his trade in the higher-profile private equity business, a clubby and often genteel industry.

現(xiàn)在他運作的是大型的私募基金，一項俱樂部式的體面生意。

JAPANESE traffic cops were until recently a genteel bunch.

不久之前日本的交通警察還是溫文爾雅的一群人。

Is Europe becoming too accustomed to genteel decline?

歐洲過于習慣其雍容華貴的衰落了嗎？

you are genteel enough , you look like a lady.

你是夠文雅的，看上去象個大家閨秀。

He went to an upper-class institution where the students learned to develop a very genteel manner.

他考上了上流社會的學校。這里培養(yǎng)的學生都很有教養(yǎng)。

My mother is a kind and gentile woman. She is always very genteel.

我的母親是一個高尚而和氣的婦人，她常常很和善。

but, on the other hand, they were of low origin, in trade, and only moderately genteel.

但是，從另一方面看，他們出身低微，靠做買賣營生，只是略有點上流人的風度。

In Japan's curiously genteel election campaign, opinion polls indicate that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is heading for defeat.

日本大選實在是斯文禮性得出奇，而其間民意選舉顯示，在朝的自由民主黨（LDP）正即將敗選。