| 单词 | urbane |
| 释义 | urbane (once / 2611 pages) adj Urbane people are sophisticated, polished, cultured, refined. Spend enough time in an urban setting–-going to concerts and museums, spending time in crowds––and you'll be urbane too. Both urbane and urban derive from the Latin urbanus, "city," but while urban has connotations of gritty living and crime, urbane assumes that everyone sees the city from the roof deck of their penthouse apartment, drinking champagne and exchanging bon mots with friends. Add a Cole Porter soundtrack and the image is complete. WORD FAMILYurbane: urbanely, urbaner, urbanest, urbanity+/urbanity: urbanities USAGE EXAMPLESThe Beatles’ urbane producer who quietly guided the band’s swift, historic transformation from rowdy club act to musical and cultural revolutionaries. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) Almost every day, Earnest, the urbane public face of the administration, is showered with questions about Trump and forced to bite his lip. The Guardian(Dec 04, 2016) Out of the car, Button is urbane and eloquent. BBC(Nov 24, 2016) adj showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience maintained an urbane tone in his letters Syn polished, refined, svelte sophisticated having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire |
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