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Urbane Urban Speech Time ɜːr'beɪn Adj.温文的;文雅的 Educated Distinguished

Front urbane
Pron [ɜːr'beɪn]
Back 【urbane】
adj.温文的;文雅的
Urbane speech is educated speech, as distinguished from the speech of the ignorant.
温文的言语是受过教育的言辞,和无知者的言论有所区别。
Vocab
urbaneshowing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

Urbane people are sophisticated, polished, cultured, refined. Spend enough time in an urban setting–-going to concerts, 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.

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urbane
urbanely
urbanity

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