Reading good books helps to refine one's speech.

阅读的书籍有助于使一个人的言谈文雅。

The wiser go their way with a decent grace.

聪明一点儿的则摆出一副端庄文雅的姿态。

And here's Rembrandt. No culture props. Just those big, meaty hands stuck in his belt.

这就伦勃朗，没什么文雅的小道具，只有插在腰带里大而多肉的一双手掌。

" Oh, gentility! " thought I, " can you endure this last shock? "

“哦，文雅的规矩！”我想，“你能承受这最后的打击吗？”

The polite, clipped English coming from that thug's face was surreal.

简短、清晰的文雅英语出自那张流氓脸非常地超脱现实。

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

在这种场合，过分不文雅的。

A gentle joyousness—a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale.

一种文雅的欢乐气氛罩在滑行的大鲸周身，它在迅疾游动中持着温和宁静。

Migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on Thursday have now been taken to a military base.

周四飞往马萨诸塞州玛莎文雅岛的移民现在已被带到一个军事基地。

That might be what some novice communicators do, but not a savvy, polished communicator such as yourself.

那可能一些新手沟通者做的事，但不像你这样一个机智、文雅的沟通者会做的事。

Once a year the civilised surroundings of a large hotel ballroom provide a simulacrum of that competition.

一年一度，酒店大舞厅的文雅环境提供了竞争的模拟画面。

Always, faceless soldiers stood on the dark porch and from the darkness many different voices spoke to her.

常常，一些面貌模糊不清的士兵站在黑暗的走廊上，几个人同时从黑暗中对她说话，有时那些黑影中会传来一个文雅的声音：" 请原谅我打扰你了。

He enjoyed speaking in fancy phrases and graceful language, and he liked to think of himself as gliding swanlike.

他喜欢在讲话时使用新的措辞和文雅的语言，也喜欢想象着自己像天鹅一般滑翔。

But my lady will have to come down to many a want of refinement.

但尊贵的夫人将不得不面对霍金斯先生的缺乏文雅风度。

Do you hear? And none of this gang of elegant thieves you've been associating with, either.

你听见没有？你一直交往的那一帮文雅的盗贼，也不能再来了。

She swallowed her anger with poor grace and tried to assume an expression of pleasant dignity.

她勉强压住怒火，设法装出一副文雅端庄的表情。

Her older sisters were very fine young ladies, and one was engaged, which was extremely interesting and romantic, Meg thought.

她的姐姐们都很文雅的小姐，其中一个已经订了婚，梅格认为这件非常有趣和富于浪漫色彩的事。

Today's Burgos feels workaday, but with a hint of gentility and former power.

今天的布尔戈斯给人一种平淡无的感觉， 但带有一丝文雅和昔日的力量。

" You'd better open the door, you--" he answered, addressing me by some elegant term that I don't care to repeat.

“你最把门开开，你这——’他回答，用某种文雅的名字称呼我，我不屑再重复了。

The inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason for learning it.

至于这些皮毛所应当体现的内在文雅她却既不曾学到也不知道为什么要学。

" So where were we, before I behaved so rudely? " he asked in the gentle cadences of an earlier century.

“那么我们说到哪里了，在我表现得这么粗鲁以前？”他用上个世纪早期的那种文雅的韵律问道。