Whatever lip service might be paid to gender equality, families are also highly talented at sending out covert messages about what a 'real' man or a 'real' woman should honourably do.

虽然嘴巴上可能会说男女平等，但对淑女绅士的言行举止暗地里却是很能说长道短。

" I mentioned that to him, " said Mr. Galloway, " and he said the men in the colliers that run up to Newcastle and the fishermen and farm hands don't behave like ladies and gentlemen and don't talk like them" .

" 我向他提过这点，" 盖洛韦先生说，" 但是他说去纽卡斯尔的煤船上的船员，渔民和农场工人并没有绅士淑女的举止，也不像他们样说话。"

While she sat there, two hours passed. The kings and queens began to leave. Their cabs rolled away. The music ended.

时钟的分针走了两个整圈，坐露天宝座上绅士淑女陆散去，个个乘坐着华丽的车片喧闹声中离开了。音乐也退回到木头盒和毛皮袋里休息去了。

Well, what does your cotillion training say is expected of a gentleman when three ladies ask him to escort them to a dance soiree?

你受过的沙龙舞训练怎么教你的绅士收到三位淑女要求 请他护送至舞会 你该怎么做？

I imagine that a few of the gentlefolks of Cranford were poor, and had some difficulty in making both ends meet, but they were like the Spartans and concealed their smart under a smiling face.

我想象克兰福德的几位绅士淑女们可能并不富裕，维持生计有困难，但他们就像斯巴达人样， 脸上始终挂着微笑， 将困窘隐藏起来。

And a very good-natured gentleman and lady they were, though they were heathens; and talked quite pleasantly to Tom about his travels, till the Powwow man arrived, with his thunderbox under his arm.

他们是非常善良的绅士和淑女，尽管他们是异教徒；并非常愉快地与汤姆谈论他的旅行，直到个 Powwow 男人来了，他的胳膊下夹着他的 thunderbox。

A great many gentlemen and ladies came to see mama, and I used to dance before them, or to sit on their knees and sing to them: I liked it.

许多绅士淑女来探望妈妈，我常他们面前跳舞，或者坐他们膝头唱歌：我很喜欢这样。

The gentlemen and ladies of whom her mother sometimes spoke, and of whom she had often dreamt, were never in their habiliments.

她母亲有时提起、她自己也常常梦到的绅士淑女们，从未穿着他们的服饰出现。

All the ladies and gentlemen were welcoming the spring, and Lady Wei could not bear to keep the curtains on her carriage drawn, but kept stealing glances at the landscape outside.

淑女绅士们都迎接春天，韦夫人不忍心拉着马车的窗帘，只是不断地偷看外面的风景。

The nature and the simplicity of gentlemen and ladies, with their servants and furniture, I think is best observed by meals within doors.

绅士和淑女们的自然和朴素，以及他们的仆人和家具，我认为最好通过门口吃饭来观察。