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GEntleman 绅士（英语 gentleman，拉丁语 gentilis，法语 gentilhomme）。最初是指来自优越家庭的男士。后来发展为对心地善良，举止优雅的男士的称呼。大英帝国（注意不同于现在的英国）被认为是绅士的老家。 在传统中国，绅士（又称士绅、缙绅、乡绅）一词是指地方乡里上的有文化有社会地位的人，一般多是指拥有最低层的科举头衔，（秀才或生员）以上的人物，绅士在传统中国的地方上有很大的作用，尤其作为官员与地方人民沟通的管道，一方面帮助官员统治地方，一方面替人民向官方争取权益，但也有不少「劣绅」利用此一地位从中取利、渔肉乡民。 也由于中国传统的绅士与英国传统的绅士在社会及文化上有其类似的重要地位，因此近代此一概念传入时便以此作为gentleman的翻译，而此名词的意义也逐渐改变为现今的意义。 The term gentleman (from Latin gentilis
belonging to a race or "gens"
and "man"
cognate with the French word gentilhomme
the Spanish gentilhombre and the Italian gentil uomo or gentiluomo)
in its original and strict signification
denoted a man of good family
the Latin generosus (its invariable trlation in English-Latin documents). In this sense the word equates with the French gentilhomme (nobleman)
which latter term was in Great Britain long confined to the peerage. The term "gentry" (from the Old French genterise for gentelise) has much of the social class significance of the French noblesse or of the German Adel
but without the strict technical requirements of those traditions (such as quarters of nobility). This was what the rebels under John Ball in the 14th century meant when they repeated: When Adam delved and Eve span
Who was then the Gentleman? [1] John Selden in Titles of Honour
(1614)
discussing the title "gentleman"
speaks of "our English use of it" as "convertible with nobilis" (an ambiguous word
like 'noble' meaning elevated either by rank or by personal qualities) and describes in connection with it the forms of ennobling in various European countries. To a degree
"gentleman" signified a man who did not need to work
and the term was particularly used of those who could not claim nobility or even the rank of esquire. Widening further
it became a politeness for all men
as in the phrase "Ladies and Gentlemen
..." and this was then used (often with the abbreviation Gents) to indicate where men could find a lavatory
without the need to indicate precisely what was being described. In modern speech
the term is usually democratised so as to include any man of good
courteous conduct
or even to all men (as in indications of gender-separated facilities). en. *** /wiki/Gentleman
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绅士=gentleman He is a perfect gentleman. 他是一个十足的绅士。
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