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Four thousand a year is a pretty estate, and he seems a very genteel, steady young man, so I hope Miss Julia will be very happy.

一年四千英镑是一笔数目可观的财产，加上他看上去又是个很有教养、很稳重的青年，我想朱莉娅小姐会非常幸福。

Tess could whistle like most other country girls, though the accomplishment was one which she did not care to profess in genteel company.

苔丝同大多数乡下姑娘一样会吹口哨，虽然她在体面人面前不愿承认会这门技艺。

TAKING your hat off at the door may seem like a throwback to a more genteel age.

进门脱帽的礼节仿佛让时光倒流，一下子回到了彬彬有礼的年代。

Jane's genteel nature allowed her to be comfortable in posh environments.

（简优雅的天性使得她在上流社会里也能应付自如。）

Her father, Harold Beauchamp, was a banker and her mother, Annie Burnell Dyer, was of genteel origins.

她的父亲，哈罗德波尚是一个银行家和她的母亲，安妮Burnell戴尔，是上流社会的起源。

He was only a soft -hearted grateful fellow , and had nothing genteel or polite about him .

他只是一个心肠软、知道感恩图报的人，并不懂得什么派头和礼貌。

It was strangely easy to converse with this genteel hunter.

与这个优雅的捕猎者交谈轻松得有些奇怪。

Some researchers claim that it was common at this time for genteel women to pluck them off, since they were considered to be unsightly .

一些研究人员声称它是常见的在这个时候为柔弱的妇女拿出它们赶走，因为他们被认为是有碍观瞻。

A shabbily-genteel individual, with a red nose and an old high hat, was sipping a quiet glass of ale alone at one end of the bar.

酒吧的一头有一个寒酸却又要体面的人，长着红鼻子，戴着顶旧礼帽，在那里安安静静地喝着淡啤酒。

Mr. Micawber, not a Bit changed, came into the room with a genteel and youthful air.

米考伯先生跟先前完全一样，优游文雅、宛如青年，进了屋里。

The Wang family occupies two rooms. Old Wang and I are considered the genteel folk in the compound. Gentility to be hanged!

王家住着两间房。我和老王是院子里公认的学问人。天杀的学问！

popular culture takes the place of genteel culture and is therefore elevated into the main stream of social and cultural thoughts.

俗文化取代雅文化上升为社会思想文化之主流。

Its once- raffish waterfront has been transformed into a genteel park, and the old neighborhoods are now dotted with cappuccino shops.

其一处极为粗俗的海岸旁，已经变成了一个安静的公园，周边有着老居民区，现在还被点缀了卡布奇诺的商店。

You wonder that Miss Lane could not find someone more genteel than a little country girl to assist her in her office.

你难道以为莱茵小姐就找不到比一个乡下小姑娘更有教养的助手吗？

"A man, indeed, is not genteel when he gets drunk; but most vices may be committed very genteelly" (James Boswell).

“一小我，当他喝醉时真实不成能文雅；但年夜大都罪恶却可能是彬彬有礼地犯下的”（詹姆斯·鲍斯弗尔）

But on at least two issues, such genteel methods are proving inadequate.

但至少在两个问题上，这样的柔性手段显得有些孱弱。

Mr Ferguson presents a thesis that the West risks not the genteel decline of old age so much as collapse.

福格桑提出了一个命题：西方国家冒险不让一个旧的时代体面的衰落甚至于是衰亡。

In fairness, Goldman was a very different (and far more genteel) firm than Salomon.

公平地说，高盛和萨洛蒙公司是大不相同的（前者更属于上流社会）。

"Last Man in Tower" depicts a genteel middle-class impoverishment of imagination and hope.

《最后的塔中人》描绘了一个充满想象与希望而优雅的中产阶级贫苦生活。

Brighton and Eastbourne, its more genteel neighbours, have reinvented themselves, but Hastings stagnated.

附庸风雅的邻镇布莱顿和伊斯特本已经开始自我调整，而黑斯廷斯却停滞不前了。