polite
常考释义
1.有礼貌的;客气的;儒雅的having or showing good manners and respect for the feelings of others
Please be polite to our guests.请礼貌待客。
We were all too polite to object.我们都太客气了,没有反对。
2.应酬的;礼节性的;客套的socially correct but not always sincere
I don't know how to make polite conversation .我不晓得怎么说应酬话。
The performance was greeted with polite applause.这场演出得到了礼貌性的掌声。
3.[obn]上流社会的from a class of society that believes it is better than others
‘Bum’ is not a word we use in polite company.“屁股”可不是我们当着文雅人的面说的字眼。
Her mother also noticed that Dorothy 's sentences mainly comprised parts of verbs and lacked most component parts of polite speech.
妈妈还发现多萝西说的句子主要由动词组成,并且缺乏最能构成礼貌语言的成分。
If you're pitching me specifically and I haven't emailed you back send me a polite reminder a week or two later.
如果你专门对我穷追不舍的话,你就应该在我没有回信给你的一周或者两周之后再发邮件过来提醒我。
He seems to quite like my company, but he's exquisitely polite so I might be misreading him.
他似乎很喜欢我的公司,但他相当有礼貌,所以我可能是误解了他。
Today, my boss walked in and said something I didn't quite hear, but my co-worker chuckled so to be polite, I laughed with him.
今天老板进来说了句什么,我没听清,不过同事笑了笑,我也配合他笑了笑。
But it is still polite for a man to open doors for women, and to ask them to go first.
但对男士来说,为女士开门,请女士先行,仍被认为是礼貌之举。
The phone is answered by a polite, well-spoken woman who tells me that she is trying to become an actress, but is struggling to find work.
电话是由一个有礼貌的,以及很会说话的女人回答的,她告诉我,她正试图成为一个演员,正在努力寻找工作。
"I finally got to know, " He said, "Everyone was kind to me. In return, I should at least be polite. "
“我终于了解到,”他说,“大家对我都很好,很有礼貌,所以我至少应该做到的是,对别人也有礼貌。”
If the inquiry is from a regular customer, a direct and polite reply, with an expression of thanks, is all that is necessary.
如果询盘的是老客户,那么仅仅需要一个带有谢意的直接的礼貌的回复就可以了。
He made a polite implication that he was going to leave.
他客气地做了一个要离开的暗示。
Finally, Edward looked over at me with a polite smile. "I'll be right behind you, " he promised.
爱德华终于转头看向我,礼貌地笑着说,“我马上就去找你。”
He made matters worse by drinking too much at dinner, and was too polite to ask to be excused.
吃饭时又喝得过多,情况更加恶化了,但是他太讲礼貌不肯借口离开。
I'm sorry! Well! I'd like to invite you to dine with me before our party. It's free and I'm not just inviting you to be polite.
哦!抱歉!好了,我邀请你在我们上次约定的酒吧聚会之前吃饭,这是免费的,也不是出于礼貌。
After having driven for a short distance, he felt guilty for his impertinence, while the boy responded to him in so polite manners.
在开了一小段路后,他有些良心不安,他粗暴无礼的态度,却得到对方如此有礼的回应。
" Oh, don't trouble, young master too polite. The girl, who told me to come in! " She said, to help me.
“呵呵,不麻烦的,少爷太客气了。姑娘,那跟我进屋吧!”大妈边说边来扶我。
I always feel as if I were in the convent again--or on the stage, before a dreadfully polite audience that never applauds.
我老觉得仿佛又进了修道院——或者上了舞台,面对着一群彬彬有礼却决不会鼓掌的可怕观众。
Creative accounting -- which is just a polite way to talk about cooking the books -- is nothing new for countries.
伪造账目(这一对编纂会计资料相对客气的说法)对于那些国家而言并不陌生。
Cecil can be very rude in private, though in public he is usually polite.
塞西尔在大庭广众中通常很有礼貌,但私下里很粗鲁。
The Chinese may be a little more polite in Washington this week. But the substance of what they say is likely to be just as unyielding.
本周中国政府代表在华盛顿的态度可能会稍微礼貌一些。但他们表态的实质内容可能同样强硬。
Therefore, I advise you to be polite to every one, avoid disobeying the principles of etiquette in case of offence and hostility.
因此我劝你对于任何人都要讲究礼仪,并且尽量不要做违背礼仪的事,一面冒犯他人或树敌。
Yi Min insisted once again to help him in the summer; it was certainly not a hypocritical polite formula.
伊敏再次提及暑假去帮他,一定不会是客气话。
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