Genteel
[dʒen'tiːl] or [dʒɛn'til]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.
(a.) Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.
(a.) Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.
整理:莱昂内尔
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Refined, polite, courteous, polished, civil, well-bred, gentlemanly or lady-like.[2]. Fashionable, stylish, elegant (in dress, style of living, &c.).
校對:玛吉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Polite, well-bred, refined, courteous, fashionable, elegant, aristocratic,polished, graceful
ANT:Rude, boorish, ill-bred, clownish, unfashionable, unpolished, inelegant,plebeian
安迪編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. well-bred: graceful in manners or in form: fashionable.—adj. Genteel′ish somewhat genteel.—adv. Genteel′ly.—n. Genteel′ness (same as Gentility).—The genteel the manners and usages of genteel or well-bred society.
埃尔伯特編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
adj. Refined after the fashion of a gent.
編輯:奥尔加
例句/造句/用法:
- It occurred to me several times that we should have got on better, if we had not been quite so genteel. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It proved to be a well-known and respected widow of the neighbourhood, of a standing which can only be expressed by the word genteel. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- To be sure, said Harriet, in a mortified voice, he is not so genteel as real gentlemen. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Or taken to the Church as more genteel? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Was answering an advertisement about typewriting and came to the wrong number--very pleasant, genteel young woman, sir. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- You might put ME into a Jail, with genteel society and a rubber, and I should never care to come out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I--in short,' said Mr. Micawber, with the same genteel air, and in another burst of confidence--'I live there. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It was the host's profound misfortune to have been overcome by that too genteel lady. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- At which time Miss Summerson's conduct was highly genteel; I may even add, magnanimous. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It had a genteel appearance, and a well-dressed, gentlemanly man sat on the seat, with a colored servant driving. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It is NOT a genteel calling, said Mrs. Blinder, and most people do object to it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- That makes no noise, and is quite as certain, and more genteel. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- We were so exceedingly genteel, that our scope was very limited. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I assure you they are very genteel people. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- After some consideration, he went into business as an informer, in which calling he realises a genteel subsistence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- When she had gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a sort of genteel platoon-exercise, she withdrew. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was a very genteel entertainment, very handsomely served. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A little walnut bark has made my yellow skin a genteel brown, and I've dyed my hair black; so you see I don't answer to the advertisement at all. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- No, Miss Jane, not exactly: you are genteel enough; you look like a lady, and it is as much as ever I expected of you: you were no beauty as a child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- We might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I cannot afford to buy a bonnet; that would be only half-and-half, a mere vulgar, shabby-genteel, cockney kind of a maid-servant! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Service, however (with a few limited reservations, genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Look at this family--my family--a family more genteel than any lady. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Ralph was ingenuous, genteel in his manners, and extremely eloquent; I think I never knew a prettier talker. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I will hear no more of the very genteel lady; I will hear no more of you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The very genteel lady-- 'Silence! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- A genteel foraging party besieged Shirley in her castle, and compelled her to surrender at discretion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Well, it is near the Church, and a genteel situation. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But why should you think, said Lucy, looking ashamed of her sister, that there are not as many genteel young men in Devonshire as Sussex? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
編輯:奥尔加