A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
绅士
Gentleman
Gentlemen, start your egos.
先生们,开始你们的自我吧。
A churl never liked a gentleman.
粗鲁的人从不喜欢绅士。
He is every other inch a gentleman.
他完全是个绅士。
A gentleman can live through anything.
绅士可以忍受任何事情。
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
礼貌和勇气一样是绅士的标志。
A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
当小偷因偷窃而变得富有时,他会被误认为是绅士。
A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
绅士就是不戴帽子打女人的男人。
Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away.
没有什么比把绅士们困在他们逃不掉的地方更好的了。
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
绅士是那种向世界付出比索取更多的人。
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
智者之于知识分子,犹如绅士之于绅士。
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
君子不侮辱我,没有人能侮辱我。
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
阅读使唐吉诃德成为一个绅士,但是相信他所读的使他发疯。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.
我从来没听我爸爸说过任何人的坏话。他总是控制自己的情绪,是个真正的绅士。我被教导说,失去它是一种放纵,一种自私的行为。
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
炫耀性地消费名贵商品,是绅士们休闲的一种手段。
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
这是对一个绅士的最后考验:他对那些对他毫无用处的人的尊重。
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
一个人,不管是绅士还是女士,如果对一本好的小说不感兴趣,那他一定是愚蠢得令人无法忍受。
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
一个流浪汉,一个绅士,一个诗人,一个梦想家,一个孤独的人,总是对浪漫和冒险充满希望。
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
无论绅士是否有能力,他都同样受到人们的爱戴;反之,心胸狭窄的人同样令人厌恶。