genteel
adj. 有教养的，文雅的；上流社会的
adj.
文雅的；有礼貌的；有教养的；上流社会的
英英释义
genteel[ dʒen'ti:l ]
adj.marked by refinement in taste and manners
"a genteel old lady"
同义词：civilizedcivilisedcultivatedculturedpolite
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
She is too genteel for words.
她说话太咬文嚼字了。
You are genteel enough, you look like a lady.
你是够文雅的，看上去象个大家闺秀。
He came from a genteel family.
他出身於有教养的家庭。
权威例句
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Academic medicine: no longer threadbare or genteel.
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genteel (adj.)
1590s, "fashionably elegant; suitable to polite society, characteristic of a lady or gentleman; decorous in manners or behavior," from Middle French gentil "stylish, fashionable, elegant; nice, graceful, pleasing," from Old French gentil "high-born, noble" (11c.); a reborrowing (with evolved senses) of the French word that had early come into English as gentle (q.v.), with French pronunciation and stress preserved to emphasize the distinction. The Latin source of the French word is the ancestor of English gentile, but the main modern meaning of that word is from a later Scriptural sense in Latin. See also jaunty. OED 2nd ed. reports genteel "is now used, except by the ignorant, only in mockery" (a development it dates from the 1840s).
1. affect genteel ignorance
假装不知道以显示自己的高贵
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
2. in a genteel manner.
有上流社会的派头的。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
3. He lived in genteel poverty.
他虽穷却爱摆排
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. She is too genteel for words.
她说话太咬文嚼字了。
-- 来源 -- 轻轻松松背单词-蒋刚
5. Strive for shabby genteel
穷讲究
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 汉英
6. living in genteel poverty
过穷酸的上流社会生活.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
7. Affectedly genteel;pretentious.
故作文雅的；做作的
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
8. so genteel and so easy!
那么温雅，又那么随便！
-- 来源 -- literature - 汉英
9. live in genteel poverty
家境困难却摆排场
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
10. Genteel manners and appearance.
优美的举止和漂亮的外表
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
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