gentility
英 [dʒenˈtɪləti] 美 [dʒɛnˈtɪlɪti]

n.

高贵的地位[出身]；有风度，彬彬有礼；因循旧习；

英英释义

gentility[ dʒen'tiliti ]

• n.elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

  同义词：breedinggenteelness

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. His gentility is purely made up.
   他的文雅都是装出来的。
2. He thinks fine clothes are a mark of gentility.
   他认为衣著讲究是身分高贵的标志。
3. He took her hand with discreet gentility.
   他温文尔雅地牵着她的手。

权威例句

The Gospel of Gentility (Book)
The Decline of American Gentility
Daniel Defoe and middle-class gentility
Newton for Ladies: Gentility, Gender and Radical Culture
'A wish of distinction' : colonial gentility and femininity
Mangling Symbols of Gentility in the Wild West: Case Studies in Interpretive Archaeology
The archaeology of middle-class domesticity and gentility in Victorian Brooklyn
The Victorians in 'Paradise': Gentility as Social Strategy in the Archaeology of Colonial Australia
An Ethnography of the Provincial: The Social Geography of Gentility in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford"
The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class. By Daria Berg and Chloë Starr, eds. London and New York: Ro...