4. He is a genteel man, and has a fine countenance and a charming voice 他是個溫文爾雅的人，生得眉清目秀，談話的聲音非常悅耳。
5. She is a girl who is genteel and considerate; also her appearance is as good as his cousin. 那是一個溫柔體貼的姑娘，她的相貌并不比他那個表妹的差。
6. He broke away from the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very realistic way. 他打破了傳統(tǒng)文學和戲劇的溫柔生活在一個非常現(xiàn)實的途徑。
7. The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society; the bravado of genteel poverty 女兒則作出特別活潑的樣子，像很善于應酬似的，這是破落戶所特有的一種虛架子。
8. Some people criticised his characters as too genteel, at a time when Dickens in particular was writing about poverty and the grim realities of life in the backstreets of Victorian London 有人批評他的人物都是矯揉造作，附庸風雅之輩，而在同一時期，狄更斯卻專門以維多利亞時代倫敦陋街僻巷中平民百姓生活的貧困與嚴酷的現(xiàn)實為寫作題材。
9. Had I still my old eye, which was broken off, I believe I should weep; but no, I would not do that, it is not genteel to cry. 如果我的老針眼沒有斷了的話，我想我是要哭出來的??但是我不能這樣做：哭不是一樁文雅的事情！
10. We shall be forever busy trying to patchit up and make it appear at least genteel. 我們只好永遠忙於修修補補，好讓它看上去至少還像模像樣。
11. It had a genteel appearance, and a well-dressed gentlemanly man sat on the seat, with a colored servant driving 那輛馬車看上去很有氣派，上面坐著一位衣冠楚楚，紳士模樣的人，趕車的是個黑奴。
12. It had a genteel appearance, and a well-dressed gentle man ly man sat on the seat, with a colored servant driving 那輛馬車看上去很有氣派，上面坐著一位衣冠楚楚，紳士模樣的人，趕車的是個黑奴。
13. If her countenance and hair had rather a floury appearance, as though from living in some transcendently, genteel Mill, it was rather because she was a chalky creation altogether, than because she mended her complexion with violet powder, or had turned grey. 倘若她的面容，她的頭發(fā)，頗有點面粉似的外表，仿佛她居住在一個超凡閑雅的磨坊里，那是因為她一生下來便全身上下具有白堊土的顏色，倒不是因為她靠搽藍紫色的粉來修飾自己的膚色，也不是因為她的頭發(fā)已經(jīng)花白了。
14. An occasional member of the fugitive genteel stuck it grimly out until death; once Clara was accosted by an old lady, battered and ragged and bent, who said as she walked along, and in accents of refined madness, that once the people that lived there had held their heads up high. 偶爾，在逃離此地的上流家族中，也會有個把人在這里硬頂下去，直到老死。有一次，一個萎靡不振，衣衫襤褸，彎腰駝背的老婦同克萊拉搭話。她一邊走一邊用一種典雅的迷戀之情的口吻說，過去住在這一帶的可都是些很神氣的人。
15. High and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexter's granddaughter) allowed that her figure was genteel 連自以為了不起的賽爾泰小姐（她是臺克斯脫勛爵的孫女兒）也承認她的身段不錯。
genteel什么意思
16. It is worthy of remark, too, that only men are shabby- genteel; a woman is always either dirty and slovenly in the extreme, or neat and respectable, however poverty-stricken in appearance. 另外值得一提的是，死要面子對男人比較適用。女人總是要么極為邋遢和不修邊幅，要么整潔可敬，不管她們看上去有多窮困。
17. He first attracted our notice, by sitting opposite to us in the reading-room at the British Museum; and what made the man more remarkable was, that he always had before him a couple of shabby- genteel books--two old dog's-eared folios, in mouldy worm-eaten covers, which had once been smart. 他第一次進入我們視野是當他在大英博物館的閱覽室里坐在我們對面的時候。當時讓他更為令人矚目的是，他總是會在面前放著幾本標準的死要面子型書籍：兩本已經(jīng)卷了角的對開本，曾經(jīng)是很體面但現(xiàn)在連封面都已經(jīng)發(fā)霉而且被蟲咬破了。
18. I had a crush on a boy who I fancied to be tender, compassionate, genteel, intelligent and self-contented, or in short, to be in possession of all the qualities that I longed for myself. 我被一個男孩吸引，在我的幻想中，他很溫柔，有同情心，文雅，聰明，知足，一言以蔽之，他身上擁有所有我渴望的品質(zhì)。
19. Ralph was ingenious, genteel in his manners, and extremely eloquent; I think I never knew a prettier talker. 勞夫是聰明、態(tài)度文雅、口才極佳的人；我想我從前也是這樣一個善于說辭的人。
20. There is the genteel and carefully modulated recession with which footmen swing wide the oaken barriers of the great. 有隨著有禮貌又小心地逐漸退出的男仆而敝開的大人物的櫟木門。
genteel 詞典解釋u0031u67E5u00B7u8BEDu8BCD
1. 彬彬有禮的；有教養(yǎng)的；上流社會的；裝出紳士派頭的 A genteel person is respectable and well-mannered, and comes or seems to come from a high social class.
e.g. It was a place to which genteel families came in search of health and quiet. 這是上流社會家庭尋求健康和靜謐的場所。 e.g. ...two maiden ladies with genteel manners and voices. 兩位舉止文雅、嗓音輕柔的少女
2. （地方）幽靜的,古樸單調(diào)的 A genteel place or area is quiet and traditional, but may also be old-fashioned and dull.
e.g. ...the genteel towns of Winchester and Chichester. 古樸幽靜的溫徹斯特和奇切斯特
genteel 單語例句
1. Not only genteel but intelligent, they are leading a lifestyle typical of the upper crust of society.
2. genteel
2. Even when they were holding a competition, they pursued it in a genteel way.
3. They gave their daughter a genteel upbringing, with her schooling at the fashionable Miss Chapin's school and Barnard College.
4. In the genteel world of luxury, companies long believed that the Web was no place for merchandising.
5. BP spokesman Robert Wine called the action " a very calm and genteel protest, " and said no employees had been prevented from getting to work.
genteel 英英釋義
adj
1. marked by refinement in taste and manners
e.g. cultivated speech cultured Bostonians cultured tastes a genteel old lady polite society
