genteel
听听怎么读
英 [dʒenˈti:l]
美 [dʒɛnˈtil]
是什么意思
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
学习怎么用
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
No Genteel CauseA genteel device for collecting faecesGenteel Companions: The Narrators in Peter Taylor's The Oracle at Stoneleigh CourtGenteel Enterprises. (Book Reviews: Science at Harvard University. Historical Perspectives.)Race and the Genteel Consumer: Class and African-American Consumption, 1850-1930Academic medicine: no longer threadbare or genteel.The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy, The University of Californa Chronicle, vol. 13'It Buys Me Freedom': Genteel Lodging in Late-Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century LondonUnmasking the Genteel Performer: Elizabeth Keckley's behind the Scenes and the Politics of Public WrathThe Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, & Santayana. By Robert DawidofF. (Chapel Hill...