genteel

英 [dʒenˈtiːl]

美 [dʒenˈtiːl]

adj.  显得彬彬有礼的; 假斯文的; 上流社会的; 装体面的; 装出绅士派头的; 幽静的; 古朴单调的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 显得彬彬有礼的；假斯文的；上流社会的；装体面的；装出绅士派头的
  quiet and polite, often in an exaggerated way; from, or pretending to be from, a high social class
  1. a genteel manner
     彬彬有礼
  2. Her genteel accent irritated me.
     她那矫揉造作的腔调使我感到难受。
  3. He lived in genteel poverty (= trying to keep the style of a high social class, but with little money) .
     他摆出一副绅士派头，过的却是穷酸的生活。
• 幽静的；古朴单调的
  quiet and old-fashioned and perhaps slightly boring

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 彬彬有礼的；有教养的；上流社会的；装出绅士派头的
  Agenteelperson is respectable and well-mannered, and comes or seems to come from a high social class.
  1. It was a place to which genteel families came in search of health and quiet.
     这是上流社会家庭寻求健康和静谧的场所。
  2. ...two maiden ladies with genteel manners and voices.
     两位举止文雅、嗓音轻柔的少女
• ADJ-GRADED （地方）幽静的,古朴单调的
  Agenteelplace or area is quiet and traditional, but may also be old-fashioned and dull.
  1. ...the genteel towns of Winchester and Chichester.
     古朴幽静的温彻斯特和奇切斯特

英英释义

adj

• marked by refinement in taste and manners
  1. cultivated speech
  2. cultured Bostonians
  3. cultured tastes
  4. a genteel old lady
  5. polite society
  Synonym:civilizedcivilisedcultivatedculturedpolite

双语例句

• Mr Murray can protest all he wants, wrote Bob Herbert, a columnist for The New York Times, his book is just a genteel way of calling somebody a nigger.
  莫瑞先生可以主张任何他想要的，《纽约时报》（NewYorkTimes）专栏作家鲍勃赫伯特（BobHerbert）说，他的书只是上流社会称呼某人是黑鬼的一种假斯文方式。
• 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！
• Less genteel, still polite, but more free-wheeling, including jokes and anecdotes told in a way which would probably not have been considered appropriate had the ladies still been present.
  少了些优雅，虽说仍然彬彬有礼，但开始天马行空了，其中还夹杂了女士不宜的笑话和趣闻。
• He came from a genteel family.
  他出身于有教养的家庭。
• Used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel.
  用来指人和他们的行为；有礼貌的，有教养的。
• People you know or have just met often remark on your genteel ways.
  认识你的人或刚刚认识你的人，都常常称赞你彬彬有礼的态度。
• His ideal of quiet and of genteel retirement was found in Washington Square.
  他理想中静谧优雅，可以幽居的住处终于在华盛顿广场找到了。
• Yet many Japanese seem more at ease with the idea of stately decline and genteel isolation.
  至今仍有很多日本人似乎更安逸的想法和有教养的孤立。
• This is a pretty genteel environment, and you don't usually see outright manifestations of bias, he said.
  这是一个非常有教养的环境，你通常不会看到直接表现出来的偏见，他说。
• A genteel eccentric, an amusing oddity.
  一个彬彬有礼、惹人发笑的怪人。