A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
绅士
Gentleman
I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
我至少是个绅士。我花了好几年才成为其中一员,但我终于有了一种得体的感觉。
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。
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
祷告使人有机会认识一位素不相识的绅士。我说的不是造他的主,乃是他自己。
Ladies and gentlemen please would you bring your attention to me? For a feast for your eyes to see an explosion of catastrophe.
女士们先生们请注意我好吗?为一场盛宴,让你亲眼目睹一场灾难的爆发。
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
一个真正的绅士,即使他失去了他所拥有的一切,也不能表现出任何感情。金钱一定比绅士地位低得多,不值得为之烦恼。
We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.
我们有这些规则,“英雄规则”。比如,英雄不会无精打采。英雄昂首阔步。英雄带着目标前行。英雄永远是绅士。
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。
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
从你试图和他谈生意的那一刻起,他就采取了绅士和学者的态度,从你试图接近他的道德操守的那一刻起,他就开始谈生意了。
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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。
A gentleman can live through anything.
绅士可以忍受任何事情。
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 churl never liked a gentleman.
粗鲁的人从不喜欢绅士。
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
在英格兰西部住着一位富有的绅士,他的名字叫默顿。