Modern English polite society seems to me as corrupt as oonsciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it.
据我看来,英国现代化上流社会被自命为有文化,但毫无廉耻的人们尽其能事弄到了最腐朽的地步。
He is a guy that lives by a different code than most polite society will ever understand or accept.
他们是这样一群人,他们用不同的生存代码编写自己的生命,而儒雅的社会却永远不理解,也不接受他们。
She became a rationalist herself, at a time when this considered by many in polite society to be blasphemy.
后来她也成了唯理论者,这被当时上流社会的许多人看做是对上帝的亵渎行为。
Some dozen years ago she created an uproar in polite society when she openly boasted of distant elvish ancestry.
数年前当她公然吹嘘自己遥远的精灵血统时,她就在上流社会造成了一阵骚动。
The means by which sugar lumps arrived on tables in polite society were carefully hidden.
令糖块堂而皇之的登上为名社会的餐桌上的途径是经过精心隐藏的。
As a result he was known as the 「Sunday gentleman」 because he ventured out into polite society only on the Sabbath, when custom forbade the arrest of debtors.