gentility

英 [dʒenˈtɪləti]

美 [dʒenˈtɪləti]

n.  文雅; 彬彬有礼; 高贵的身份; 幽静古朴

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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
  1. He took her hand with discreet gentility.
     他温文尔雅地牵着她的手。
  2. 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。
• 幽静古朴
  the fact of being quiet and old-fashioned
  1. the faded gentility of the town
     已失去古朴风貌的城镇

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.
  1. 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。
  2. The hotel has an air of faded gentility.
     这家宾馆有一种没落的贵族氛围。

英英释义

noun

• elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
  Synonym:breedinggenteelness

双语例句

• In this very heart of England's gentility it was difficult to realize that a lonely woman could be importuned or hunted.
  在这个英国文雅气息的中心，很难想象到一个孤独的女子会受到人家的纠缠和追逼。
• 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。
• Louisa, Melchior's wife, was a stolid woman of the lower class. Yankees haven't sense enough to know that you haven't any gentility.
  曼希沃的妻子鲁意莎，是下等阶级的一个呆头呆脑的女人。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。
• 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。
• You do not like fussiness around you or in your perfumes, you want a perfume that shows what you stand for-independence, simplicity and gentility.
  你不喜欢过于复杂的香水，而体现独立、简单和优雅气质的香水通常是你的首选。
• 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 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。
• He thinks fine clothes are a mark of gentility.
  他认为衣着讲究是身分高贵的标志。
• 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。
• 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