Through reading books, people improve their literacy and acquire skills.

通过阅读，我们能够提升文学修养，获得知识。

Just like good behavior and manners.

保持良好的修养和言行举止。

Well, I wouldn't want to be culturally insensitive.

我也不想这么没有修养。

So Kung fu is also a means of self-cultivation, isn't it?

这么说来，功夫还是提高自我修养的一大途径了？

So, what accomplishment is genuinely their own?

么，什么样的修养才是真正属于自己的呢？

Sure. We tend to think that the slower one eats, the more polite one seems.

好的。我们会认为一个人吃得越慢，显得越有修养。

Your nephew young Joe didn't help...he's not here today is he? I need to recover!

你侄子乔没帮上忙，他是不是今天没来，我要修养！

A certain degree of accomplishment is necessary for survival and lies at the basis of civilization.

一定程度的修养是生存所的，是文明的基础。

Kim's program, which has a spiritual undertone, is a mix of martial arts, meditation and gardening.

金东的项目带有精神修养的基调，包含了武术、冥思和园艺。

Rita Levi Montalcini was born into an intellectual and artistic Jewish family in 1909.

丽塔·列维·蒙塔尔奇尼1909年出生在有文化和艺术修养的犹太家庭。

The owner may have wanted to make people believe he was cultured with his choice of myth-related frescoes.

他可能想借这样一幅神话壁画告诉访客，自己是有文化修养的。

Scarlett exercised the same charms as Melanie but with a studied artistry and consummate skill.

思嘉也像媚兰样发挥自己魅力的作用，但是她还使用了一种很有修养的功夫和高度的技巧。

It was a long time before Houston was well again. The war ended before he could return to action.

休斯顿修养了很长时间才恢复。在他返回战场前战争就结束了。

You know, he's not at all literary, she said. " He's a perfect philistine."

" 你知道，他一点儿也没有文学修养，" 她说，" 他是个十足的小市民。"

But that is because his original leitmotif has been hopelessly over shadowed through the lack of a good self education.

但男陽由于缺乏良好的自我修养，人最初的主旋律就已投上了无望的阴影。

I know that you are all fond of this pretty pond, this marvelous marsh, these reedy shores and restful retreats.

我知道你们都喜欢这个可爱的池塘，这个奇妙的沼泽，这个芦苇岸和安静的修养所。

I'm not a good judge of literature, sir.

我的文学修养很一般 先生。

Well, I try to be as civilized as you can be.

我尽力试着做到跟你一样有修养。

I have been urging self-cultivation in English as if it concerned one person alone, ourself.

我一直在敦促英语修养， 就好像它只关系到一个人， 我们自己。

High cultivation may help to self-command, but it multiplies the chances of irritative contact.

高修养可能有助于自我控制， 但它会成倍增加刺激性接触的机会。