gentleman

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gen·tle·man /ˈdʒentlmən/ S2 W2 noun (plural gentlemen /-mən/) [countableC]

1 MANa polite word for a man, used especially when talking to or about a man you do not know 先生〔对男士客气的称呼，尤用于不认识的人〕 → lady

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。

► see thesaurus at man

2 POLITEa man who is always polite, has good manners, and treats other people well 绅士，君子 → lady

Martin – always the perfect gentleman – got to his feet when my mother walked in.

马丁在我母亲进来时站了起来——他一向是十足的绅士派头。

Mr Field was a real gentleman.

菲尔德先生是位真正的君子。

3 old-fashionedSSCLASS IN SOCIETY a man from a high social class, especially one whose family owns a lot of property 有身份的人，富绅，绅士 → lady

an English country gentleman

英国乡绅

Examples from the Corpus

gentleman• On our way upstairs we met a gentleman coming down in the dark.• Ladies and gentlemen, may I present Dr Nelson Mandela.• Mr Marks, an elderly gentleman, was travelling with his daughter.• Got to have brains for that, gentlemen.• Can you serve this gentleman please, Sarah?• Please show this gentleman to his seat.

ladies and gentlemen• Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, distinguished cabinet ministers and ambassadors, ladies and gentlemen.• Mix in the hair-trigger rage that can result from steroid use and, well, stand back, ladies and gentlemen.• Thank you for coming, ladies and gentlemen.• Here goes, ladies and gentlemen.• That isn't enough, so some kind ladies and gentlemen in London pay the rest.• A round of applause please, ladies and gentlemen.• Several ladies and gentlemen, relations of hers, were there.• Rather fine these, ladies and gentlemen.

perfect gentleman• He always had been a perfect gentleman.• You might say she behaved like a perfect gentleman.• Everybody envied Evelyn; her husband was always such a perfect gentleman.• Roland was a perfect gentleman last night.• My own whip was a perfect gentleman, but it was really other colleagues who got really nasty.• Now that he was being the perfect gentleman in not pursuing her, at last she began to breathe more easily.

country gentleman• Reggie was an endearing, kindly man who had led a leisurely, unadventurous life as a country gentleman.• There was enough accumulated wealth for the third Joseph Wright Alsop to pursue a life as country gentleman.• The rich were, by and large, country gentlemen.• Enter Clement Clarke Moore, country gentleman.• His life was that of the ordinary country gentleman of the period.• Who were the country gentlemen who were so put out from pursuing their time-honoured pastime?• The country gentleman at his best.

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