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单词 urbane
释义
urbane
adjective
approving
uk
/ɜːˈbeɪn/us
/ɝːˈbeɪn/
(especiallyof a man)confident,comfortable, andpoliteinsocialsituations:
（尤指男子）从容自信的，温文尔雅的
Herschel was an urbane,kindly, andgenerousman.赫舍尔这个人温文尔雅、友善慷慨。
Synonym
polished
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urbanely
urbanity
(Definition ofurbanefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

urbane| American Dictionary

urbane
adjective
us
/ɜrˈbeɪn/
having anunderstandingof theworldandshowingexperienceandconfidence:
urbaneconversation/pleasures
His urbanemannersimpressedme.
(Definition ofurbanefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofurbane

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Thisurbanecomposer was never particularly credited with profundity, yet the work is one of his most profound and certainly most extended utterances.
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The presumably urban/urbaneofficer in the third-grade text is ignorant of the custom, and the twenty-year-old recruit cannot explain his painted hands.
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Mainline churches, whose members and clergy are generally the best educated and mosturbane, object theologically to many of the traits enumerated above.
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She was kind andurbane.
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Millais'surbanetreatment of the subject is worthy of his source.
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It wasurbane, informative, discreet, precise and persuasive.
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We had a fairlyurbanediscussion apart from his intervention.
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They have beenurbaneand have not used any rude words.
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In the way that we might expect from him he hedged his bets about in characteristicallyurbanefashion.
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I presume that his epithets areurbaneobjectivity.
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Despite the sharp exchanges, his spirit was sufficientlyurbaneto enable him to forgive everything afterwards and to be good friends.
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They have to be, so far as possible, detached, or at any rateurbane, in their comments on the topics of the day.
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They were quiteurbaneuntil the point arrived when the investigators sought to take away privileged communications between the company and its solicitors.
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It seemed to me to be thoughtful and witty andurbaneand a pleasure to listen to.
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By the middle of the fourteenth century they had family histories that boasted of aristocratic,urbaneaccomplishments.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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