gentility
gentility 英 [dʒenˈtɪləti] 美 [dʒɛnˈtɪlɪti]
n. 有教养，文雅；上流阶层
名词复数:gentilities
- Anyone can be nice. Many people have good manners. But gentility is that rare kind of graciousness that is handed down from one elegant generation to the next.
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- n. 有教养，文雅；上流阶层
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1. The powerful combination of gentility and brashness she acknowledges comes her way by genetics.
她自认为她的温文尔雅与"粗鲁莽撞"的强力结合来自遗传。"
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2. Pink roses: elegance, gracefulness, refinement, gentility, style and poetic romance but being combined with fun and light-heartedness.
粉红玫瑰：高雅、优美、精致、文雅、时尚和诗情，但同时又有玩笑和轻浮的意味。
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3. He loathed gentility and social convention. To him they smacked of fakery, like the various artistic symbolisms, Surrealism among them, that modern painting had contrived.
路西安厌恶英式文雅和社会礼教，对于他来说这些不过是一通伪造，就像是各式各样的符号主义、超现实主义，而现代油画是矫揉造作的。
- gentility (n.) mid-14c., "nobility of birth, gentle birth," from Old French gentilité (14c.), from Latin gentilitatem (nominative gentilitas) "relationship in the same family or clan," from gentilis "of the same family or clan" (see gentle; also compare gentry). From 1640s as "social superiority." Meaning "state of being gentile" is rare.
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