1·Mr Ferguson presents a thesis that the West risks not the genteel decline of old age so much as collapse.
费格斯先生提出了一种观点，认为西方社会面临的风险像旧时期上流社会的衰败一样，最后会彻底崩溃。
2·In fairness, Goldman was a very different (and far more genteel) firm than Salomon.
公平地说，高盛和萨洛蒙公司是大不相同的(前者更属于上流社会)。
3·The portraits of Bancroft family members occasionally seem cartoonish-much is made of their genteel New England ways-but then their behaviour reinforces the stereotype.
班克罗夫特家族的尊容偶尔会在大众脑海中形成一幅漫画般的印象，其中刻画的大多是这些人新英格兰上流社会的做派。但后来他们自己的一些举动加深了别人心中的成见。
4·She always talks in such a genteel voice when she's on the phone.
她打电话时，说话总是摆出一副上流架子。
5·It was an ordinary childhood amongst 4 genteel villages and rolling fields.
其孩提生活平凡，住在上流社会的村落，四周都是起伏不平的广阔土地。
1·You are genteel enough, you look like a lady from a wellbred family.
你是够文雅的，看上去真像个大家闺秀！
2·You are genteel enough, you look like a lady.
你是够文雅的，看上去象个大家闺秀。
3·Aggressive, efficient and armed with up-to-the-minute market intelligence supplied by well-paid art advisers, these collectors are shaking up the way business gets done in the genteel art world.
这些藏家进取、高效，且拥有由报酬丰厚的艺术顾问提供的最新市场情报，他们正在改变在文雅的艺术界做生意的方式。
4·Mr. Micawber, not a Bit changed, came into the room with a genteel and youthful air.
米考伯先生跟先前完全一样，优游文雅、宛如青年，进了屋里。