查询词典 genteel

I saw through his shabby-genteel dinners and public-house port; his fine talk of the grandeur of his family; his sham pride and independence, and the sham tears in his bleared old eyes when he talkled of his only child.

我看到了他所布下的陷阱，诱使龙骑兵陷进去的、一切叫人恶心的、可鄙的、显而易见的陷队我看透了他那硬装体面的寒酸正餐和小酒馆葡萄酒；他那吹嘘其家族如何高贵的夸夸其谈；他那假装出来的自豪和独立的气概，以及他讲起他的独生女儿时朦胧老眼里假装出来的泪水。

It is a deceitful liquid that black and blue reviver; we have watched its effects on many a shabby-genteel man.

它的功效是我们在很多死要面子的人身上都曾经见识过的。

At its expiration the 'reviver' had entirely vanished, and the shabby- genteel man never afterwards attempted to effect any improvement in his outward appearance.

等到天气终于好转的时候，&复活液&也彻底失效了。自那以后，死要面子先生再也不对改观自己的外表作出任何别的尝试了

Because Kei Kumai's loving minor-key enchantment has such a genteel, forlorn wooziness — the picture is about the restorative power of love — it's hard to believe that the script comes from an unfilmed effort by Akira Kurosawa.

看看中文的剧情介绍，有助于阅读英文故事发生在江户时代的深川。在深川的&苇屋&妓院工作的小新善良而单纯，姐姐菊乃经常教导她不要爱上钟情的客人。

He first attracted our notice, by sitting opposite to us in the reading-room at the British Museum; and what made the man more remarkable was, that he always had before him a couple of shabby- genteel books--two old dog's-eared folios, in mouldy worm-eaten covers, which had once been smart.

他第一次进入我们视野是当他在大英博物馆的阅览室里坐在我们对面的时候。当时让他更为令人瞩目的是，他总是会在面前放着几本标准的死要面子型书籍：两本已经卷了角的对开本，曾经是很体面但现在连封面都已经发霉而且被虫咬破了。

More than 600 pages later the ageing Dickens, by now rich, famous and almost universally revered, is to be found hobnobbing with the queen, making genteel small talk about servants and "the cost of butchers' meat and bread".

而在600多页之后，出现的就是一个年长的狄更斯了，富有，出名，而且备受尊崇。他与女王把酒言欢，温文尔雅地谈论着仆从以及&屠夫们的肉和面包所需的花费&。

Personal disorder cannot be ignored, Given their genteel proclivities.

个人的粗鲁不应忽视，给她们温和的对待

Influenced by Crane's willingness to explore the grit and grime of both the human psyche and American society, novelists were realizing that their proper subject matter included whatever they saw in America, not merely what purveyed images of the genteel and the proper.

受起重机愿意探索的勇气和污垢的人力心理和美国社会，小说家开始认识到，正确的事项包括什么，他们看到在美国，而不仅仅是什么purveyed图像安静的和适当的。

The natural beauty remains, but the man-made amenities have fallen on hard times. Many of the stone mansions were turned into getaways for Communist officials and sanitariums for work units after the party's 1949 victory, and gradually sank into a state of often not-so-genteel disrepair.

如今，莫干山依然保持着当年的自然美景，但人工设施在动荡时期遭到了破坏。1949年共产党上台后，许多用天然石材建造的房屋成了领导干部的度假别墅和单位职工的疗养院，并逐渐被荒废，失去了昔日的风采。

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。

But this is impossible, as long as it is engaging in a market economy, there are risks in any operation.

但是，这是不可能的，只要是搞市场经济，是有风险的任何行动。

We're on the same wavelength.

我们是同道中人。