1·It was a place to which genteel families came in search of health and quiet.
这是一个上流社会家庭寻找健康和宁静的场所。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Her genteel accent irritated me.
她那矫揉造作的腔调使我感到难受。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·The baker was standing behind his counter, disputing the items of a bill with a shabby-genteel young woman.
面包店老板站在柜台后面，正跟一个衣衫褴褛的、斯文的年轻女人为一笔账而争论。
4·He came from a genteel family.
他出身于有教养的家庭。
5·She is too genteel for words.
她说话太咬文嚼字了。
6·The pigeon is a beautiful and genteel bird.
鸽子是一种美丽而温柔的鸟。
7·I assure you they are very genteel people.
老实跟你说吧，他们是很有体面的人。
8·You are genteel enough, you look like a lady.
你是够文雅的，看上去象个大家闺秀。
9·Is Europe becoming too accustomed to genteel decline?
欧洲过于习惯其雍容华贵的衰落了吗？
10·The result was a festival of genteel special-pleading.
结果却成了上流社会的“诡辩”节。
1·Mr Ferguson presents a thesis that the West risks not the genteel decline of old age so much as collapse.
费格斯先生提出了一种观点，认为西方社会面临的风险像旧时期上流社会的衰败一样，最后会彻底崩溃。
2·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)。
3·The portraits of Bancroft family members occasionally seem cartoonish-much is made of their genteel New England ways-but then their behaviour reinforces the stereotype.
班克罗夫特家族的尊容偶尔会在大众脑海中形成一幅漫画般的印象，其中刻画的大多是这些人新英格兰上流社会的做派。但后来他们自己的一些举动加深了别人心中的成见。
4·She always talks in such a genteel voice when she's on the phone.
她打电话时，说话总是摆出一副上流架子。
5·It was an ordinary childhood amongst 4 genteel villages and rolling fields.
其孩提生活平凡，住在上流社会的村落，四周都是起伏不平的广阔土地。
1·You are genteel enough, you look like a lady from a wellbred family.
你是够文雅的，看上去真像个大家闺秀！
2·You are genteel enough, you look like a lady.
你是够文雅的，看上去象个大家闺秀。
3·Aggressive, efficient and armed with up-to-the-minute market intelligence supplied by well-paid art advisers, these collectors are shaking up the way business gets done in the genteel art world.
这些藏家进取、高效，且拥有由报酬丰厚的艺术顾问提供的最新市场情报，他们正在改变在文雅的艺术界做生意的方式。
4·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。