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genteel
时间: 2025-05-31 00:35:57
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英 [dʒenˈtiːl]

adj.体面的;彬彬有礼的;有教养的;适合上流社会的;幽静古朴的;故作高雅的;过分有礼的;

双语例句
  • It was a place to which genteel families came in search of health and quiet.

    这是一个上流社会家庭寻找健康和宁静的场所。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Her genteel accent irritated me.

    她那矫揉造作的腔调使我感到难受。

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  • The baker was standing behind his counter, disputing the items of a bill with a shabby-genteel young woman.

    面包店老板站在柜台后面,正跟一个衣衫褴褛的、斯文的年轻女人为一笔账而争论。

  • He came from a genteel family.

    他出身于有教养的家庭。

  • She is too genteel for words.

    她说话太咬文嚼字了。

  • The pigeon is a beautiful and genteel bird.

    鸽子是一种美丽而温柔的鸟。

  • I assure you they are very genteel people.

    老实跟你说吧,他们是很有体面的人。

  • You are genteel enough, you look like a lady.

    你是够文雅的,看上去象个大家闺秀。

  • Is Europe becoming too accustomed to genteel decline?

    欧洲过于习惯其雍容华贵的衰落了吗?

  • The result was a festival of genteel special-pleading.

    结果却成了上流社会的“诡辩”节。

  • It was strangely easy to converse with this genteel hunter.

    与这个优雅的捕猎者交谈轻松得有些奇怪。

  • You are genteel enough, you look like a lady from a wellbred family.

    你是够文雅的,看上去真像个大家闺秀!

  • A new, commodified attitude reigns in the once genteel world of high fashion.

    高端时尚曾经属于上流社会,如今正被一种新的商业化思维所统治。

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

    进门脱帽,这似乎倒退回了那装模作样的年代。

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

    公平地说,高盛和萨洛蒙公司是大不相同的(前者更属于上流社会)。

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

    《最后一个塔中人》则描绘了一个有教养但想象力、希望缺失的中产阶级。

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

    在“古典路”博科具有良好的透气性,吸湿财产,拉电阻。

  • Horne had the fine features, soprano stylings and genteel comic touch of, say, an Irene Dunne.

    霍恩有着精致的五官,精湛的女高音歌喉还有稍许有点像艾琳·邓恩的喜剧特色,但她不是白人。

  • I have known many couples, who have entIrely dIslIked each other, lead very comfortable genteel lIves.

    我认识许多对夫妻,彼此根本不喜欢,生活仍然非常舒适温存。

  • He broke away from the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very realistic way.

    他打破了传统文学和戏剧的温柔生活在一个非常现实的途径。

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

    费格斯先生提出了一种观点,认为西方社会面临的风险像旧时期上流社会的衰败一样,最后会彻底崩溃。

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

    附庸风雅的邻镇布莱顿和伊斯特本已经开始自我调整,而黑斯廷斯却停滞不前了。

  • He joined a traditional bourgeois marriage. He called his wife “mother” and lived in a genteel middle-class home.

    他遵循着中产阶级的一切传统:婚姻,优雅漂亮的住家;称呼妻子为“妈妈”。

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

    英语并不是日语那样充满了各种敬语,也不那么大量依赖暗示。

  • 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.

    与上流社会的保守组织不同,以农民和工人为主的大部分红衫军认为他依旧是个英雄。

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

    日本奇特的没有硝烟的竞选活动中,民调显示当权的自民党面临失败。

近义词
adj. 有教养的,文雅的;上流社会的