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ur·ban·i·ty
r bae nih ti
复数:urbanities
词根:urban
adj.urban 城市的;住在都市的
urbane 彬彬有礼的,温文尔雅的;都市化的
urbanized 城市化的
n.urbanization 都市化;文雅化
v.urbanized 使城市化(urbanize的过去式)
vt.urbanize 使都市化;使文雅
"there is an important difference between rusticity and urbanity"
十六世纪三十年代,源于14世纪的法语词语“urbanité”,并直接派生自拉丁语词语“urbanitatem”(主格形式为“urbanitas”),意为“城市生活; 在罗马的生活; 文雅、城市时尚或风度、优雅、礼貌”,同时也指“机智、嘲讽、欺骗”,源自“urbanus”(请参阅“urban”)。
The first known use of urbanity was in the 15th century
1 And what about Gilbert & George, apparently enthusiastic Tories whose civil partnership and combination of tweedy tradition and metropolitan urbanity surely make them honorary Cameroons?
2 Instead, this “Gossip Girl” embraces its urbanity, often in a cheeky, self-referential way.
3 Lady’s downtown world was one of urgent, restless urbanity.
4 His classical urbanity comes to his relief -- if one can attribute urbanity to a former Agrarian.
是他的古典的优雅风格挽救了他, 如果我们可以用优雅这两个字来形容过去的重农主者的话.
5 “When you homogenize a city, you destroy its feeling of urbanity,” Ms. Schulman said, referring to the banks and drugstores and chains retailers steadily wallpapering over the city’s indispensable quiddities.
6 After a few steady strokes, the thumping bass faded and bird calls once again drowned out all indications of urbanity.
7 Nature is idolized, while characters like Dr Frankenstein who represent science and urbanity are depicted as uniformly cruel.
自然被崇拜,而像弗兰肯斯坦这样代表科学和文雅的人被描绘得极端冷酷。
8 Urbanity..may seem too smooth, too slick, but we..recognize in it a political gift.
9 Some 100 stores now carry her trademark blend of architectural body-conscious urbanity.
10 Throughout “Sea of Glass,” sex is regularly alluded to with jolly, good-natured urbanity.
11 Members turned their backs on Parisian urbanity to embrace a back-to-the-land emphasis on painting scenes of rural French life, often doing their artwork outdoors.
12 Coming out of the Cole Porter tradition, they revel in an urbanity that has all but disappeared from the pop landscape.
13 That would be one way to describe him, his nice mix of informality and urbanity.
14 Noseda is the soul of urbanity, and yet there was a rawness to his approach.
15 The literary richness of their lyrics is matched by a musical approach that mixes the tough simplicity of North American folk traditions with the urbanity of the Gershwins and Stephen Sondheim.
16 The artist defiantly equips his parcels of simulated urbanity with incandescent lightbulbs rather than more efficient and versatile LEDs.
17 The man-to-man intimacy of Ovid's voice is astonishingly modern in its urbanity and hedonism, but the poem's most seductive quality resides in the voluptuous lapidary quality of Latin into Elizabethan English via bold Marlowe.
18 It was brass, hope, determination and urbanity — all traits I associated with musicals — incarnate.
19 Exuding charm and urbanity on the phone, Mr. Zulawski is nonetheless an auteur to be approached with trepidation.
20 Hough, 50, looks forward to revisiting Seattle, a city he previously praised with trademark urbanity and wit in his delightful blog in the British newspaper The Telegraph.
3 文雅
quiet decent elegant gentle finished polished humane gracious civilized dainty suave urbane debonair decorous svelte maidenly Chesterfieldian gently prettily finish grace distinction gentility suavity gentilesse civilize nice delicate refined polite graceful genteel spirituel polish elegance refinement suaveness refine round fashionable attic cultured thoroughbred courtly highbred raffine civilization pure cultivated couth politesse urbanize
6 优雅
grazioso fine beautiful smooth elegant finished refined polished minion Corinthian airy gracious cultivated snarky silken courtly ladylike well-polished spirituel flowerlike Chesterfieldian leggiero deluxe fairily gentlehood concinnity class style finish grace polish elegance cultivation refinement finesse swank couth elegancy refine urbanize swell-differous swellelegous classic delicate modest fairy exquisite silky quaint posh genteel rosewater well-bred daintily amenity gentility daintiness classicality
10 客套话
11 文雅的举止