Gentility
[dʒen'tɪlɪtɪ] or [dʒɛn'tɪləti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Good extraction; dignity of birth.
(n.) The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding.
(n.) The class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry.
(n.) Paganism; heathenism.
克莱儿整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Politeness, courtesy, urbanity, good breeding, good behavior, refinement of manners.
拜伦整理
同義詞及反義詞：
[See GENTEEL]
校對:内奥米
例句/造句/用法:
- I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I have frequently thought that I must have been intended by nature to be fond of low company, I am so little at my ease among strangers of gentility! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- He is very plain, undoubtedlyremarkably plain:but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- They plume them-selves on their gentility there, I can tell you, if that's any satisfaction. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Such was the blood of gentility which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- His being a clergyman would be only for gentility's sake, and I think there is nothing more contemptible than such imbecile gentility. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Jos liked to hear it, but the Major used to go off growling at the appearance of this woman, with her twopenny gentility. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Her sister asserted the family gentility by flouting the poor swain as he loitered about the prison for glimpses of his dear. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Old Mr. Letterblair, the accredited legal adviser of three generations of New York gentility, throned behind his mahogany desk in evident perplexity. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- For a time, therefore, the old families and country gentility sent their servants and their luggage by train, but themselves jogged along the old post-roads in the family chariots. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The proud mother's world was not their world of Harley Street gentilities on the one hand, or country clergymen and Hampshire squires on the other. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
整理:塔尼娅