gentility
英 [dʒenˈtɪləti]
美 [dʒenˈtɪləti]
n. 文雅; 彬彬有礼; 高贵的身份; 幽静古朴
BNC.23320 / COCA.27599
牛津词典
noun
- 文雅;彬彬有礼;高贵的身份
very good manners and behaviour; the fact of belonging to a high social class- He took her hand with discreet gentility.
他温文尔雅地牵着她的手。 - 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。
- He took her hand with discreet gentility.
- 幽静古朴
the fact of being quiet and old-fashioned- the faded gentility of the town
已失去古朴风貌的城镇
- the faded gentility of the town
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 高贵的出身(或外表)
Gentilityis the fact or appearance of belonging to a high social class.- 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。 - The hotel has an air of faded gentility.
这家宾馆有一种没落的贵族氛围。
- He surrounds himself with all the trappings of gentility — dogs, horses, and fine paintings...
英英释义
noun
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
双语例句
- 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。 - Again, a kind of gentility and knight's 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - All her life she had heard sneers hurled at the Yankees because their pretensions to gentility were based on wealth, not breeding.
她一直听人们对北方佬嗤之以鼻,因为北方佬的帮作高雅是以财富而不是以教养为基础的。 - A Moral Reading of the "Comity" and "Contention" in the "Kingdom of Gentility" of The Mirror and Flowers
《镜花缘》“君子国”里“让”与“争”的道德解析 - 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.
我要找出那些仍然尖酸刻薄的词语,也许我还得像从前那样温文尔雅才能找到。 - Recited the decree with an important air; took long important strides in the direction of his office. He swaggered out of the room, with much elegance and gentility.
以权威的姿态宣读法令;大踏步地向他的办公室走去。他昂首阔步地从屋子里走出去,气度雍容,姿态优美。 - As a boy, he was educated in the cultural archaisms of the Chinese classics. During his teens, however, Lu Xun's family sank from gentility into poverty and disgrace.
他在童年时期接受的是中国儒家经典的旧式教育,在十几岁的时候,其家道中落,从富贵人家陷入贫穷和羞辱。 - All his Southern gentlewomen 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。