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 gentility [dʒɛn'tɪlətɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 出身高贵, 绅士们, 上流阶层, 斯文, 有教养, 彬彬有礼, 文雅, 装体面, 假斯文

  1. His gentility is purely made up.
    他的文雅都是装出来的。
  2. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtake.
    时髦,是逃亡自庸俗而又惟恐被?上的假斯文。
  3. Gentility is but ancient riches.
    出身高贵,只不过是其祖辈有钱。


gentility
[ noun ]
elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
<noun.attribute>


Gentility \Gen*til"i*ty\, n. [L. gentilitas the relationship of
those who belong to the same clan, also, heathenism: cf. F.
gentilit['e] heathenism. See {Gentile}.]
1. Good extraction; dignity of birth. --Macaulay.

He . . . mines my gentility with my education.
--Shak.

2. 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.

3. The class in society who are, or are expected to be,
genteel; the gentry. [R.] --Sir J. Davies.

4. Paganism; heathenism. [Obs.] --Hooker.

  1. However, the surroundings could have been grimmer than Garden City with its boulevards and air of fading inter-war gentility. The US Treasury initially thought of hosting the meeting in a hotel nearer to J F Kennedy airport.
  2. Mr. Gray has been called a cross between Lily Tomlin and Mark Twain, but he is really something all his own: A 45-year-old with shaggy gray hair and a bald spot, a hip downtown character with WASP gentility and Zen commentary.
  3. From among thousands of tea shops across England, this oasis of gentility was given the 1990 Top Tea Place of the Year Award by The Tea Council Limited, which represents British tea packagers and distributors as well as six other tea-producing countries.
  4. Though Random House stopped opening such mail eight years ago, at most houses the children's slush pile is the last vestige of the gentility once common in publishing, where every manuscript is examined and sometimes even rejected with sensitivity.
  5. In one of the dozens of scrapbooks kept by Bette Davis, a picture portrays the young actress as the model of gentility, wearing a long, white dress, holding a white parasol.
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