gentleman
n. 绅士, 先生
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教材释义与例句
先生；绅士；有身份的人
a polite word for a man, used especially when talking to or about a man you do not know
Could you serve this gentleman please, Miss Bath?
巴思小姐，请你接待一下这位先生好吗？
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen .
早上好，女士们，先生们。
An elderly gentleman was asleep next to the fire.
一位老先生在火炉旁边睡着了。
释义与例句
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1.
Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.
先生
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2.
Any man.
绅士
先生们
各位
诸君
引申义Please escort this gentleman to the gentlemen's room.
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3.
A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK law) an armigerous man ranking below a knight.
历史Being a gentleman, Robert was entitled to shove other commoners into the gongpit but he still had to jump out of the way of the knights to avoid the same fate himself.
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4.
An effeminate or oversophisticated man.
贬义Well, la-di-da, aren't you just a proper gentleman?
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An amateur or dabbler in any field, particularly those of independent means.
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An amateur player, particularly one whose wealth permits him to forego payment.
体育 游戏
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词源
From Middle English gentilman, morphologically gentle + man, partial calque of Old French gentilhome.
来源：wiktionary