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
• He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility ( James Joyce)
  为了给人有贵族气派的印象，他说话粗暴（詹姆斯乔伊丝）
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Pink roses: elegance, gracefulness, refinement, gentility, style and poetic romance but being combined with fun and light-heartedness.
  粉红玫瑰：高雅、优美、精致、文雅、时尚和诗情，但同时又有玩笑和轻浮的意味。
• 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。
• 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。
• There is not much harm in a lion; he has no ideal, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility.
  狮子为害不大；它没有理想、没有宗教、没有政治、没有骑士精神、没有假斯文。
• 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。