Reading good books helps to refine one's speech.

阅读好书籍有助于使一个人言谈文。

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

今天布尔戈斯给人一种平淡无奇感觉， 但带有一丝文和昔日力量。

It's almost as if he's having a go at the polite siennas and decorous burnt umbers of the drawing-room paintings he'd had to sell in the Hague and London.

这几乎就像是他在评判着那些有着文铬黄色和深赭色客厅画，那些他不得不送去海牙和伦敦销售作品。

The wiser go their way with a decent grace.

聪明一点儿则摆出一副端庄文态。

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

这就是伦勃朗，没什么文小道具，只有插在腰带里大而多肉一双手掌。

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

简短、清晰文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，过分好奇是不文。

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

一种文欢乐气氛笼罩在滑行大鲸，在迅疾游动中依然保持着温和宁静。

That by the force of his brush and the dazzlement of his colour, they'd experience those fields, those faces, those flowers, in ways nothing more polite or literal could ever possibly convey.

通过他画笔力量和他色彩中令人眼花缭乱东西，人们用以前可能从未表达过最文最精确方法去体验那些土地，那些面孔，那些花朵。

I was drawn, too, by what I knew of Macarthur — his apparent refinement of manner, his reputation as an intellectual loafer — not because I was interested in these qualities in themselves, but because they seemed to make him more approachable.

我对麦卡瑟也感兴趣，因为我知道一些关于他事情——他表面上文举止，作为一个知识分子散漫不羁名声——并不是因为我对这些特质本感兴趣，而是因为这些特质让他似乎更加平易近人。

She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.

罗毕拉德卧室里养育大，那位老太太是个文高鼻子法兰西人，无论对自己儿女或者仆人只要触犯法规便不惜给以应得惩罚。

Her graceful gait, elegant figure, and dignified manner in general won the mummers to the opinion that they had gained by the exchange, if the newcomer were perfect in his part.

她文步态，优美段，端庄举止，使演员们觉得，假如这位新人能出色扮演好他角色，那么这样换一个人对他们倒挺有利。

'You see, Miss Cathy? Nice words to be used to a young lady! Now come along, let's fetch the pony and leave, ' I said.

“你知道了，凯茜小姐，对一个年轻小姐就用这种文语言！跟我走吧，我们牵上小马离开吧，”我说。

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

“你最好把门开开，你这——’他回答，用某种文名字称呼我，我不屑再重复了。

" 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？”他用上个世纪早期那种文韵律问道。

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

她姐姐们都是很文小姐，其中一个已经订了婚，梅格认为这是件非常有趣和富于浪漫色彩事。

Elizabethdisdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection, but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate, her.

伊丽莎白听了他这篇文调整词令，表面上并不愿意显出很注意样子。这番话用意她当然明白，可是再也平息不了她气愤。

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奇措辞和文语言，也喜欢想象着自己像天鹅一般滑翔。

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

那可能是一些新手沟通者做事，但不是像你这样一个机智、文沟通者会做事。

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

一年一度，酒店大舞厅文环境提供了竞争模拟画面。