| 词汇 | gentlemanly |
| 释义 | gentlemanly adjective uk /ˈdʒen.təl.mən.li/ us /ˈdʒen.t̬əl.mən.li/ typical of a polite gentleman: 绅士的;绅士风度的;彬彬有礼的;有修养的 a gentlemanly manner绅士风度 Polite and respectful candy coat candy-coated chivalric chivalrous chivalrously courtly couth deferential deferentially euphemism for someone/something hyper-civilized keep a civil tongue in your headidiom manner minced oath mind/watch your mannersidiom tactful tactfully ultra-civilized ultra-refined urbane Examples of gentlemanlygentlemanly Importantly, these early societies served as finishing schools where young men of the upper working and lower middle classes could define and adopt "gentlemanly" behavior. Instead, he simply wanted to find an alternative solution to the problems of gentlemanly reputation. The gentlemanly exchange of research materials was confounded by the unexpected liveliness of the objects themselves. But it does not necessarily exclude a prominent role for gentlemanly capitalism in promoting imperial expansion. For the hopes of professional geological consultants were overtaken by the reformation and revitalization of the gentlemanly amateur tradition. Untroubled by doctrinal issues, never burdened by thoughts of conversion, they assimilated at the college the gentlemanly culture and political skills of a constitutionalist regime. Patronage was an extension of ordinary gentlemanly intercourse, by the same means. The very frivolity of such practices is important: their unproductive nature is, in fact, exactly what is gentlemanly about them. To question such reports would be tantamount to questioning the gentlemanly status of their authors. In contrast, drawings could be made in the gentlemanly space of the study. Members too, are expected to follow gentlemanly codes of conduct. They show us a system that was burdensome for the participants, made more acceptable since it was an extension of gentlemanly civility. By the turn of the twentieth century the public schools had developed a unifying ethos which gloried in the gentlemanly pursuits. But a threat was to loom to the dominant values of gentlemanly geology. The early nineteenth-century geological 'magnates' conceived and practised geology in a liberal, gentlemanly way. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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