英:[ɜ:ˈbeɪn]
美:[ɜrˈbeɪn]
英:[ɜ:ˈbeɪn]
美:[ɜrˈbeɪn]
ur·bane
uhr beIn
urbanely (adv.), urbaneness (n.)
词根:urban
adj.urban 城市的;住在都市的
urbanized 城市化的
n.urbanization 都市化;文雅化
urbanity 都市风格;雅致;有礼貌
v.urbanized 使城市化(urbanize的过去式)
vt.urbanize 使都市化;使文雅
Adjective
1. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience;
"his polished manner"
"maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
2. characterized by tact and propriety
3. marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel;
"the sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite"
"urbane and pliant...he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris"
1530年代,“与城市或城镇有关的”,源自法语 urbain(14世纪),直接源自拉丁语 urbanus “属于城市”,也指“城市化的,优雅的”(见 urban)。意思“有城镇居民的礼貌,有礼貌的,精致的”来自1620年代,源自古典拉丁语的第二义。这个意义上的 Urbanity 记录于1530年代。为了意义的联系和形式的区别,可以比较 human/humane; german/germane。
Urbane; literally city-like, expresses a sort of politeness which is not only sincere and kind, but peculiarly suave and agreeable. [Century Dictionary]
Urbane; 字面意思是城市般的,表达了一种不仅真诚友善,而且特别温和宜人的礼貌。[世纪词典]
Latin urbanus urban, urbane
The first known use of urbane was circa 1623
urchinnoun
a mischievous child
sea urchin
urbanizeverb
to cause to have an urban appearance
urbanized areas
to cause to take on an urban way of life
urbanized the peasant population
urbanizeverb
to cause to have an urban appearance
urbanized areas
to cause to take on an urban way of life
urbanized the peasant population
urbanitenoun
one living in a city
urbaneadjective
very polite and smooth in manner
urbaneadjective
very polite and smooth in manner
1 Ephron’s best scripts offered the comfort of an old-fashioned love story in what felt like a fizzy, urbane contemporary setting.
2 It has an urbane New York sensibility — Ms. Holofcener was raised there — and a familiar attachment to the neurotic.
3 He was reticent, patrician, bookish, urbane.
他沉默含蓄, 雍容华贵, 书生气十足,而又温文有礼.
4 What new narrative is his former partner, Ford—an urbane yet terrifying Anthony Hopkins—building, and what is at stake in his submerged struggle with the park’s corporate ownership?
5 As an urbane schemer, Mr. Lacoste is proficient but not great at being the man we love to hate.
6 At first, it seems as if he meant it, introducing a gathering of urbane, upper-crust Londoners with the style of a frothy drawing-room affair.
7 But packed into the romantic urbane farce of “On the Town” are the spirituality of “Jeremiah” and the dance and blues of “Fancy Free.”
8 Elliott, in his urbane way, says only that in 2016 Turkey was on a path to accession and that Vote Leave was citing what was a probability.
9 He adds: “Barns are about as far from the urbane world of fashion as a place can get, and they stink.”
10 Mr. Hart’s songs have a timeless, dreamy quality, at once emotion-laden and urbane.
11 The subway is part of Beijing's transformation to a more urbane metropolis.
地铁是北京向一个更为现代的大都市转型的一部分.
12 Photograph: Mark Jenkinson/Corbis There's always an awkward moment before somebody opens the envelope and reveals the winner, and it usually has to be filled with urbane chatter and cautious modesty.
13 But his brutal frankness was often cloaked in urbane wit.
14 It’s a slightly softer variation on the hotel’s original urbane theme.
15 On air his urbane tenor speaking voice conveys a cool omniscience and authority that seem ageless.
16 Though sitting in a room full of such bright, 15 urbane unemployed people could be worrisome, Mr. Sam found it calming.
虽说坐在这样一群才华横溢,彬彬有礼的失业人士当中会令人不安,但他的心却觉得很平静。
17 The duo represented a new generation of Conservatives: deft and urbane, easy in their privilege.
18 There could be a demographic explanation: The city is always being restocked by people like me from less urbane environments, and we bring our cultural traditions, just as immigrants to New York have for generations.
19 Dolphy’s way with blue tones is angular, jauntily inflected, urbane; his music has the tangle and the clamor of city streets, the ferocity of crowds, the romanticism of late-night lights.
20 With its original music and urbane characters, Smash feels like an attempt to do Glee for adults: age-appropriate escapism.
1 彬彬有礼
fair civil courteous well-behaved genteel civilly courtesy gentility gentlemanly well-mannered gentlemanlike genty respectfully urbanely complaisance keep a civil tongue do the civil do the civil thing debonair fair-spoken attention urbanity
2 有教养的
truebred nice sophisticated polite educated accomplished civilized cultured literate cultivated thoroughbred well-educated genteel highbred
3 有礼貌的
proper civil decent gentle polished polite attentive gracious civilized presentable well-behaved courtly gentlemanly obliging well-mannered housebroken decorous formal genteel soft courteous affable mannerly complaisant couth well-bred respectful agreeable
4 文雅的
quiet decent elegant gentle finished polished humane gracious civilized dainty suave debonair decorous svelte maidenly Chesterfieldian nice delicate refined polite graceful genteel spirituel round fashionable attic cultured thoroughbred courtly highbred raffine pure cultivated couth
5 有礼貌
proper civil decent gentle polished polite attentive gracious civilized presentable well-behaved courtly gentlemanly obliging well-mannered housebroken decorous properly fairly prettily formal genteel civilly politeness couth courteous well-bred mannerly house-train respectful agreeable gently urbanize
6 彬彬有礼的
fair civil courteous well-behaved genteel gentlemanly well-mannered gentlemanlike genty charming fair-spoken debonair proper chivalrous
7 温文的
10 文雅
quiet decent elegant gentle finished polished humane gracious civilized dainty suave debonair decorous svelte maidenly Chesterfieldian gently prettily finish grace distinction gentility urbanity 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
11 儒雅的
14 从容不迫的
16 温文尔雅的