civility

英 [səˈvɪləti]

美 [səˈvɪləti]

n. 彬彬有礼的行为; 礼貌; 客气; 客套

复数：civilities　

BNC.21057 / COCA.12195

牛津词典

noun

彬彬有礼的行为；礼貌；客气
polite behaviour
1. Staff members are trained to treat customers with civility at all times.
  全体职员接受训练，以便在任何时候对顾客都以礼相待。
客套；客气
remarks that are said only in order to be polite

noun

Promoting social civilization with business civility; doing what one can do to help establishing the harmonious society.
以商业文明推动社会文明，为创建和谐社会添砖加瓦。
He threw out the bridge of a charming hollow civility.
他架起了一座虚情假意的迷人的桥梁。
Confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.
混乱使世界四分五裂，破坏了所有礼貌和尊敬的界限。
The collapse of national civility and cohesion made it difficult for the disputants to hear each other.
民族的谦恭精神和团结一致精神的瓦解使争论者们很难倾听对方的意见。
Young clerks often lack both knowledge and civility.
年轻的服务员缺少知识和礼貌。
She answered him with cold civility.
她客客气气地敷衍了他一下。
I told him to have the civility next time to ask permission before walking through my garden.
我告诉他应该懂得礼貌，下次在穿过我的花园之前要先征求我同意。
There's really no excuse for not having a big civility footprint.
的确人们没有一个借口不去留下大的文明足迹。
We have big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low morale, secured rights and diminished civility.
我们得到了大房子，但却换来了家庭的破裂；我们得到了高收入，但却降低了道德水准；
But civility has been sacrificed to the gratuitous insult.
然而礼貌却沦为无端侮辱的牺牲品。