" But if I had stayed in my home, I wouldn't have had any home left to stay in" . " The inference is that you should have starved genteelly and with pride" .

" " 但如果我一直待在自己家，我就会没有什么好干的了。" " 总的说来，就是你应该高雅而自豪去饿肚子。" " 嘿，胡说八道！你就太太吧。

Dr Markel subscribes to the view that Wallace was genteelly sidelined by Darwin and his friends when the two men's ideas were presented jointly to a meeting of the Linnean Society in 1858.

马克尔博士认为，当 1858 年在林奈学会的一次会议上，达尔文和他的朋友们共同提出他们的观点时，华莱士却被达尔文和他的朋友们巧妙地排挤了。

I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too.

我希望乔受到的教育能更文雅些，那样我也会更有教养。