Despite all the genteel charm, Bernini was known to have a low boiling point.

尽管贝尼尼表面上温文尔雅，但大家都知道他个容忍度很低的人。

She was a good example of a genteel woman, Lydia thought.

迪娅想，她有教养的女性中的一个范例。

I do not believe that there was in that genteel Bohemia an intensive culture of chastity, but I do not remember so crude a promiscuity as seems to be practised in the present day.

我并不认为当时风雅放浪的诗人作家执身如何端肃，但我却不记得那时候文艺界有今天这么多风流韵事。

There was a genteel tap of the knocker and the musical voice asked again.

只听门环轻轻响了一下，那个音乐般的声音又问道。

Like all customs, what is deemed genteel is subject to change.

就像所有的风俗习惯一样，被认为优雅的东西也会变的。

It is never genteel to be over-curious on these occasions.

在这种场合，过分好奇不文雅的。

These are genteel people. Tony Lip might be a little...worldly for them.

这些都上流人士，托尼·普可能有点...太庸俗了。

" Your lady may prefer this. It's a superior article, a most desirable color, quite chaste and genteel, " he said, shaking out a comfortable gray shawl, and throwing it over Jo's shoulders.

“你的夫人也许更喜欢这一条，它质量上等，颜色十分令人满意，非常朴素高雅，”他说着将一条柔软的灰色羊毛披肩抖开，披在乔的肩上。

Now to the female students, the ladies of the laboratories are a bit more genteel gin and tonic add the blue anchor for them.

对女学生来说，实验室的女士们更文雅一点，喜欢提供杜松子酒和奎宁水给的哪个蓝色锚。

He considers American cities a " wasteland" run by Jews and Black people, though the words he uses to denote these groups are considerably less genteel than these.

他认为美国各座城太人和黑人管理的“荒地”，尽管他用来指代这些群体的词语远没有这些词汇文雅。

It proved to be a well-known and respected widow of the neighbourhood, of a standing which can only be expressed by the word genteel.

原来邻里大家都认识并且很敬重的寡妇，她的身份，只能用有教养这几个字来形容。

" I don't know." It was strangely easy to converse with this genteel hunter. " I left him a letter."

“我不知道。”与这个优雅的捕猎者交谈轻松得有些奇怪。“我给他留了一封信。”

Of course, not all cooling tricks were so genteel, city urchins found their own ways to beat the heat.

当然，并非所有消暑方式都文雅，城穷孩子自有解暑妙招。

A short walk from the museum, discover an area that’s a little less genteel-British, and a little more quirky-Canadian.

在博物馆不远处，有个地方少了英国绅士味，却多了加拿大的古怪趣味。

She belongs in the pantheon of the greatest Americans, not among genteel letter-writers sleeping warmly in their beds.

她属于美国伟人之流，而不能和那些白天矫揉造作写信、晚上暖暖和和睡觉的人士混为一谈。

Shrouded in a thick veil and armed with a genteel traveling basket, she departed, feeling that a cool drive would soothe her ruffled spirit and fit her for the labors of the day.

罩上一层厚厚的面纱，挽了一只时髦的旅行篮子，她出发了，觉得乘车凉快地走一趟，可以安抚她这乱糟糟的心情来应付这一天的操劳。

A small, genteel notification of her being licensed to sell tea would, it is true, be necessary, but I hoped that it could be placed where no one would see it.

如果她获得了售茶许可，当然需要发布一个小小的、文雅的通知，但我希望这通知能发在一个没人看到的地方。

Just as I opened the door, I caught the words, " I was foolish to expect anything very genteel out of the Drumble shops; poor girl! She did her best, I've no doubt."

就在我开门的时候，我听到了这样的话：“我真愚蠢，竟然指望在德拉姆伯尔的商店里买到非常优雅的东西；可怜的姑娘！她尽力了，这一点我毫不怀疑。”

Cranford had so long piqued itself on being an honest and moral town that it had grown to fancy itself too genteel and well-bred to be otherwise, and felt the stain upon its character at this time doubly.

克兰福德长久以来一直以诚实和道德的民风自居，以至于产生了自己过于优雅和有教养，不可能其他样子的错觉，因此对这次抢劫带来的品格污点感到加倍心痛。

I'm willing to do anything that's right and honest; and I don't think, if Deborah knows where she is, she'll care so very much if I'm not genteel; because, you see, she'll know all, dear.

我愿意做任何正确和诚实的事情；而且我认为，如果黛博拉在天之灵知道的话，她不会太介意我否文雅；因为，你知道，她什么都明白，亲爱的。