politesse

基本解釋

With the politesse of a Medici, the mayor paused and listened, then promised to further this artistic endeavor once he had dealt with his first batch of election pledges.
市長有著美地奇家族傳統(tǒng)的禮貌，他停下腳步，聆聽塞拉西尼博士（Dr. Seracini）的介紹，他承諾一旦開始履行競選誓言，他將在第一時間裡推薦這項藝術活動。
AS THE emissary of a new president ostensibly still in “l(fā)istening mode”, Hillary Clinton was politesse personified during her first swing as secretary of state through the Middle East this week.
儅新任縂統(tǒng)的使者表麪上仍停畱在“監(jiān)聽方式”上時，希拉裡這禮拜在她的以國務卿身份進行中東之旅是則是以人性化的禮節(jié)作爲第一次的轉變的。
Politesse costs nothing and gains everything.
禮貌無所失，卻得到了一切。

Yet the literariness of the subject, and the gingerly politesse of its execution, should cause some disquiet.
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He still drives a pick-up truck, still wears cowboy boots under his dark suit, still eschews the politesse expected of a congressman.
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But having said, with all the politesse possible, that this is not good science, why then leap to the idea that it is politics?
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