Between them, they taught her all that a gentlewoman should know, but she learned only the outward signs of gentility.

俺知道了，'或者说：'听您的吩咐，先生。'" 虽然她们两人把凡大家闺秀应该知道和东西都教给了她，但她仅仅学到了表面的礼貌。

Never forgetting that by birth she was a gentlewoman, she cultivated her aristocratic tastes and feelings, so that when the opportunity came she might be ready to take the place from which poverty now excluded her.

她从来不忘自己生来就淑女，直培养着自己的贵族品位与感觉，以便机会来临时，就可以过上被现时的贫困所隔绝的生活。

" I read one out of curiosity, " said Mrs. Encombe. " I must say, it's more what you'd expect from a Frenchman than from an English gentlewoman" .

" 我出于好奇看过本，" 恩科姆太太说。 " 依我看，这种书不像出自英国有教养的妇女之手，倒像法国男人写的。"

Using her family connections, she got a job at a hospital for " distressed gentlewomen" on Harley Street in London.

利用她的家庭关系，她在伦敦哈利街的家为“苦恼的贵妇”服务的医院找到了份工作。

Put at the head of 38 volunteer nurses, the 37-year-old left behind her hospital for gentlewomen and got on a boat on October 21, 1854.

1854 年 10 月 21 日，在 38 名志愿护士的带领下，37 岁的她离开了贵妇医院，登上了艘船。

" The lady who keeps it is a reduced gentlewoman, " explained Miss Barry.

“管它的女士位低调的绅士，”巴里小姐解释道。

We'll walk grand estates and take tea with well-dressed gentlewomen.

我们将参观宏伟的庄园，并与穿着考究的贵妇们共进下午茶。

And good afternoon, fine gentlewomen of Dunder Mifflin.

下午好, Dunder Mifflin的女士们。

And the title makes it clear that the work was designed to help readers understand hard words found in many books at the time and was also intended for, quote, ladies, gentlewomen, and other unskillful persons, end quote.

而标题清楚地表明， 这部作品旨在帮助读者理解当时许多书籍中出现的难词，同时也面向“女士、淑女及其他不擅长此道的人”。

The air of a gentlewoman, a great deal of quiet, inactive good temper, and a trifling turn of mind were all that could account for her being the choice of a sensible, intelligent man like Mr. Allen.

温文尔雅的气质，大量的安静、不活跃的好脾气，以及微不足道的头脑，这些都能解释为什么像艾伦先生这样理智聪明的男人会选择她。

Among the rest, I was much diverted with a little old treatise, which always lay in Glumdalclitch's bed chamber, and belonged to her governess, a grave elderly gentlewoman, who dealt in writings of morality and devotion.

在其他东西中，我被本小旧册子逗乐了，这本册子直放在格卢姆达克莉奇的卧室里，属于她的女家庭教师。这位女家庭教师位严肃的老妇人，喜欢读些关于道德和信仰的书籍。

Marriage, which was to bring guidance into worthy and imperative occupation, had not yet freed her from the gentlewoman's oppressive liberty: it had not even filled her leisure with the ruminant joy of unchecked tenderness.

婚姻本来要引导她从事有价值和必要的职业，但还没有使她摆脱贵妇人压迫的自由：它甚至没有使她的闲暇充满不受抑制的温柔的反刍快乐。

You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how.

当我说我想成为名女士时，你会嘲笑我，但我的意思在思想和举止上做真正的绅士，我会尽我所能做到这点。

If it was too large for a pair of unpretending gentlewomen, this was better than the opposite fault; for Catherine had no desire to find herself in closer quarters with her aunt.

如果对于对朴实的淑女来说太大了，这总比对面的错要好；因为凯瑟琳不想和姑姑住得更近些。

She wanted a few pounds of flour, and offered the money, which the decayed gentlewoman silently rejected, and gave the poor soul better measure than if she had taken it.

她想要几磅面粉，并提出要钱，但被腐朽的贵妇人默默地拒绝了，并给了这可怜的灵魂比她接受它更好的衡量标准。

All stages of gentlemen mate a stage higher; and the lowest stage of gentlewomen are left single, or marry out of their class'.

诸位君子相配更上层楼；最低级的绅士们要么单身，要么嫁出她们的阶级。

We'll walk grand estates, take tea with well-dressed gentlewomen, and enter ballrooms to dance with the most eligible men in the county.

我们将漫步于宏伟的庄园， 与衣着考究的贵妇共饮下午茶，并步入舞厅， 与郡内最抢手的单身汉共舞。

Since the Pegler affair, this gentlewoman had covered her pity for Mr. Bounderby with a veil of quiet melancholy and contrition.

自从佩格勒事件发生后， 这位贵妇人就用种平静的忧郁和忏悔掩盖了她对庞得贝先生的同情。

She was one of the few gentlewomen I have ever known, and has remained throughout my life the measure of what a human being can be.

我被她深深地吸引，因为她像我从没有亲身遇到过的那些人。

Astonished that the person who had brought me up should be a gentlewoman!

——惊讶地发现，抚养我长大的人竟然位绅士！