genteel怎么读

英式音标：[dʒenˈti:l]

美式音标：[dʒɛnˈtil]

genteel基本解释

adj. 有教养的，文雅的；上流社会的

genteel的意思释义

adj.

文雅的；有礼貌的；有教养的；上流社会的

英英释义

adj.marked by refinement in taste and manners

\"a genteel old lady\"

同义词：civilizedcivilisedcultivatedculturedpolite

genteel用法及例句

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。

例句参考

A genteel device for collecting faeces

Genteel Companions: The Narrators in Peter Taylor\'s The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court

Genteel Enterprises. (Book Reviews: Science at Harvard University. Historical Perspectives.)

Race and the Genteel Consumer: Class and African-American Consumption, 1850-1930

Academic 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 London

Unmasking the Genteel Performer: Elizabeth Keckley\'s behind the Scenes and the Politics of Public Wrath

The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, & Santayana. By Robert DawidofF. (Chapel Hill...

genteel词源

genteel (adj.)

1590s, \"fashionably elegant; suitable to polite society, characteristic of a lady or gentleman; decorous in manners or behavior,\" from Middle French gentil \"stylish, fashionable, elegant; nice, graceful, pleasing,\" from Old French gentil \"high-born, noble\" (11c.); a reborrowing (with evolved senses) of the French word that had early come into English as gentle (q.v.), with French pronunciation and stress preserved to emphasize the distinction. The Latin source of the French word is the ancestor of English gentile, but the main modern meaning of that word is from a later Scriptural sense in Latin. See also jaunty. OED 2nd ed. reports genteel \"is now used, except by the ignorant, only in mockery\" (a development it dates from the 1840s).

genteel相关例句

1.affect genteel ignorance

假装不知道以显示自己的高贵

7.Affectedly genteel;pretentious.

故作文雅的；做作的

10.Genteel manners and appearance.

优美的举止和漂亮的外表

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