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

• Gentility and Sincerity: the Portrayal of the Cultural Identities of the Baima Lake Writers
  温柔敦厚的仁者情怀：白马湖作家群文化个性描述
• Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken. He is not a go person.
  时髦，是逃亡自庸俗而又惟恐被赶上假斯文。他不是个赶时髦的人。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He thinks fine clothes are a mark of gentility.
  他认为衣着讲究是身分高贵的标志。
• The development of folk customs in Ryukyu, as far as material and spiritual customs are concerned, were manifested the evolved route of from rough to gentility as well as from simple to complicated. In addition, it was embraced of the impact of foreign customs.
  琉球民间习俗的形成，无论物质民俗，抑或精神民俗，都遵循着由粗朴到文雅，由简单到繁琐的发展规律，并且在这个发展过程中，不断受到外来习俗文化的影响和冲击。