well-bred

基本解釋

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
有教養(yǎng)的人批駁別人，有智慧的人批駁自己。
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She was a person--we dare not say a woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied.
那是個(gè)安靜、嚴(yán)肅、友好、冷淡，從來(lái)不曾說(shuō)過(guò)謊的人，我們不敢說(shuō)她是個(gè)婦人。
This translates into some gloriously diverse parishes, where well-bred eccentrics meet Filipino domestics, east European builders and African asylum-seekers.
這催生了一些極度多元化的教區(qū)，有教養(yǎng)的怪人和菲律賓傭人、東歐建築工人、非洲避難者聚集在一起。

Mouchoir was a word that well-bred French people couldn't allow themselves to utter or hear in public.
ECONOMIST: Shakespeare
Despite his well-bred charm and his cosmopolitan, establishment background (born in Paris, educated at Millfield and Oxford), he remains a quintessential outsider.
ECONOMIST: The environment
Yet they proved to be less well-bred than originally planned.
ECONOMIST: Lloyds is first out of the gate with a new kind of capital