查询词典 genteel

We could illustrate the remark by a variety of examples, but, in our present sketch, we will only advert to one class as a specimen--that class which is so aptly and expressively designated as 'shabby-genteel.

我们本来可以用各种范例来证明这种说法，不过，在本文中，就让我们不妨偏向于某一个类别作为样本。这类人被一个词语非常生动而恰当地描绘了出来，那就是&死要面子&

We were never engaged in business with more than one shabby-genteel man; and he was a drunken engraver, and lived in a damp back-parlour in a new row of houses at Camden-town, half street, half brick-field, somewhere near the canal.

我们唯一打过交道的一个死要面子先生是一个酒鬼雕刻师傅。他住在坎顿镇一排新房子后面潮湿的房子里。那个地方其实一半是街道，一半是砖块地，离运河不远。

On consideration, we remember to have occasionally seen two shabby-genteel men conversing together on 'Change, but our experience assures us that this is an uncommon circumstance, occasioned by the offer of a pinch of snuff, or some such civility.

不过仔细想想的话，我们想起来有几次看到两个死要面子先生在交易所外面说着话。不过从经验来判断，这种情况是很少见的，伴随着赠送一撮鼻烟或者类似的礼仪

A shabby-genteel man may have no occupation, or he may be a corn agent, or a coal agent, or a wine merchant, or a collector of debts, or a broker's assistant, or a broken-down attorney.

一个死要面子先生可以是无业人员，也可以是倒卖粮食的，倒卖煤炭的，或者经营酒类的，要么就是专业催债的，交易员的助理，或者穷困潦倒的律师。

Some people criticised his characters as too genteel, at a time when Dickens in particular was writing about poverty and the grim realities of life in the backstreets of Victorian London

有人批评他的人物都是矫揉造作，附庸风雅之辈，而在同一时期，狄更斯却专门以维多利亚时代伦敦陋街僻巷中平民百姓生活的贫困与严酷的现实为写作题材。

He would now be studying actuarial science. And this wasn't the only change: the move from genteel, francophone Montreal to the more worldly and business-oriented Toronto was profound and deliberate.

而这并不是唯一的变化：从身处讲法语的蒙特利尔优雅社会到进入一个更世俗、更加以商业为中心的多伦多社会，这一变化意义深远，而且经过深思熟虑。

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。