gentlefolk

1 You and me, perhaps, wouldn't make much fuss if one of our young 'uns was to cut and run, but gentlefolks is different.

2 Mrs. Branderton had routed our all villagers for her show of gentlefolk.

为了显示她的上流人士身份，布兰德顿夫人把全村的人都请来了。

3 "We thought the gentlefolks were going to stop at number nine, where all the fine doings are to be——" "You thought, and you thought; you should not think such stupid things."

4 Farmer.—Yes! many gentlefolk come to see it in the summer time.

5 But on the day following the joust, the esquires and the gentlefolk, but not the waiting-men, apparelled them, whatsoe'er it cost, in satin, broidered with silver.

6 Well, it is evident they know we are gentlefolks.

7 What a pity it is, Mr Monk, that in civilised England people who are gentlefolks are not compelled by law to educate their children!

8 And so are you, sir, I'm sure," said the landlady, courtesying; "I know what gentlefolk be.

9 I'm a sot, If I know what These gentlefolks are at.

10 She was a patrician, the child of long generations of aristocratic associations, while he, although his father and mother were gentlefolk, was a commoner.

11 All these are the familiar ways to deal with the native attention for the girl of gentlefolk.

这对于名门闺秀来说，是应对与生俱来关注的常见办法。

12 So with a goodly company of gentlefolk, I turned me to the hall, where all were merry for that they vied with one another in the dance.

13 Here two women are carrying a basket with clean linen,—they have been washing for all these gentlefolks.

14 Garth, that had been in the hands of gentlefolk, of Armigeri from Harry the Eighth, to pass into the hands, into the blood of--no, it was impossible!

15 To the delight of the world's easily scandalized gentlefolk, "Bridgerton" and "Sanditon" returned for their respective second seasons with less sex and more balls, the kind that involves dancing.

16 I thought, you could hang all these other aspects on that in a fun way,” said Coppola, thinking of screwball comedies and the “Thin Man” gentlefolk mysteries.

17 Old women, seedy gentlefolk, peasants, children, all crowded about the shop, stretching out their hands; I gave, and asked some of them about their position and means, and entered all in my note-book.

18 Young girls in the families of seventeenth century gentlefolk spent much time in the study of heraldry.

19 I have heard it said that nothing could make Glasgow people gentlefolks because we are 'that weel-pleased'; and the less apparent reason there seems for complacency the more 'weel-pleased' we are.

20 Here he became acquainted with the Unwins: ... the most agreeable people imaginable; quite sociable, and as free from the ceremonious civility of country gentlefolks as any I ever met with.

1 出身名门者

gentlefolks

2 上流人士

gentry four hundred gentlefolks gentleman effendi

3 社会地位高的人

gentry nob

4 有身分的人

gentlepeople gentle gentleman respectability

5 出身名门的人

gentlepeople gentle