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GEntleman
紳士（英語 gentleman，拉丁語 gentilis，法語 gentilhomme）。最初是指來自優越家庭的男士。後來發展為對心地善良，舉止優雅的男士的稱呼。大英帝國（注意不同於現在的英國）被認為是紳士的老家。
在傳統中國，紳士（又稱士紳、縉紳、鄉紳）一詞是指地方鄉里上的有文化有社會地位的人，一般多是指擁有最低層的科舉頭銜，（秀才或生員）以上的人物，紳士在傳統中國的地方上有很大的作用，尤其作為官員與地方人民溝通的管道，一方面幫助官員統治地方，一方面替人民向官方爭取權益，但也有不少「劣紳」利用此一地位從中取利、漁肉鄉民。
也由於中國傳統的紳士與英國傳統的紳士在社會及文化上有其類似的重要地位，因此近代此一概念傳入時便以此作為gentleman的翻譯，而此名詞的意義也逐漸改變為現今的意義。
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 translation 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).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman

Gentleman

紳士
caballero, gent, gentleman, rye, OR signior
(多用gentleman)

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紳士=gentleman

He is a perfect gentleman.
他是一個十足的紳士。

1.Gentleman

2.gentry

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