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4. He is a genteel man, and has a fine countenance and a charming voice
他是个温文尔雅的人，生得眉清目秀，谈话的声音非常悦耳。
5. She is a girl who is genteel and considerate; also her appearance is as good as his cousin.
那是一个温柔体贴的姑娘，她的相貌并不比他那个表妹的差。
6. He broke away from the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very realistic way.
他打破了传统文学和戏剧的温柔生活在一个非常现实的途径。
7. The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society; the bravado of genteel poverty
女儿则作出特别活泼的样子，像很善于应酬似的，这是破落户所特有的一种虚架子。
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
有人批评他的人物都是矫揉造作，附庸风雅之辈，而在同一时期，狄更斯却专门以维多利亚时代伦敦陋街僻巷中平民百姓生活的贫困与严酷的现实为写作题材。
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.
如果我的老针眼没有断了的话，我想我是要哭出来的??但是我不能这样做：哭不是一桩文雅的事情！
10. We shall be forever busy trying to patchit up and make it appear at least genteel.
我们只好永远忙於修修补补，好让它看上去至少还像模像样。
11. It had a genteel appearance, and a well-dressed gentlemanly man sat on the seat, with a colored servant driving
那辆马车看上去很有气派，上面坐着一位衣冠楚楚，绅士模样的人，赶车的是个黑奴。
12. It had a genteel appearance, and a well-dressed gentle man ly man sat on the seat, with a colored servant driving
那辆马车看上去很有气派，上面坐着一位衣冠楚楚，绅士模样的人，赶车的是个黑奴。
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，她的头发，颇有点面粉似的外表，仿佛她居住在一个超凡闲雅的磨坊里，那是因为她一生下来便全身上下具有白垩土的颜色，倒不是因为她靠搽蓝紫色的粉来修饰自己的肤色，也不是因为她的头发已经花白了。
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.
偶尔，在逃离此地的上流家族中，也会有个把人在这里硬顶下去，直到老死。有一次，一个萎靡不振，衣衫褴褛，弯腰驼背的老妇同克莱拉搭话。她一边走一边用一种典雅的迷恋之情的口吻说，过去住在这一带的可都是些很神气的人。
15. High and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexter's granddaughter) allowed that her figure was genteel
连自以为了不起的赛尔泰小姐（她是台克斯脱勋爵的孙女儿）也承认她的身段不错。
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，死要面子对男人比较适用。女人总是要么极为邋遢和不修边幅，要么整洁可敬，不管她们看上去有多穷困。
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.
他第一次进入我们视野是当他在大英博物馆的阅览室里坐在我们对面的时候。当时让他更为令人瞩目的是，他总是会在面前放着几本标准的死要面子型书籍：两本已经卷了角的对开本，曾经是很体面但现在连封面都已经发霉而且被虫咬破了。
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.
我被一个男孩吸引，在我的幻想中，他很温柔，有同情心，文雅，聪明，知足，一言以蔽之，他身上拥有所有我渴望的品质。
19. Ralph was ingenious, genteel in his manners, and extremely eloquent; I think I never knew a prettier talker.
劳夫是聪明、态度文雅、口才极佳的人；我想我从前也是这样一个善于说辞的人。
20. There is the genteel and carefully modulated recession with which footmen swing wide the oaken barriers of the great.
有随着有礼貌又小心地逐渐退出的男仆而敝开的大人物的栎木门。
1. 彬彬有礼的；有教养的；上流社会的；装出绅士派头的
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.
这是上流社会家庭寻求健康和静谧的场所。
e.g. ...two maiden ladies with genteel manners and voices.
两位举止文雅、嗓音轻柔的少女
2. （地方）幽静的,古朴单调的
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.
古朴幽静的温彻斯特和奇切斯特
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.
adj
1. marked by refinement in taste and manners
e.g. cultivated speech
cultured Bostonians
cultured tastes
a genteel old lady
polite society
Synonym: civilized civilised cultivated cultured polite