colloquial shortening of gentleman, by 17c. (in early uses it is difficult to distinguish the shortening from the common abbreviation gent.), which is perhaps the origin of this use. "Early in the nineteenth century the word was colloquial and slightly jocular; about 1840 its use came to be regarded as a mark of low breeding" [OED].
雙語例句
1. Mr Blake was a gent. He knew how to behave.
布萊克先生是位紳士，舉止得體。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.
他60歲出頭，是位有著貴族氣派的清瘦紳士。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Quite a gent,'e was -- dress shirt, top'at, black overcoat.
他是個上等人 —— 穿著白襯衫, 戴著高禮帽, 外面一件黑大衣.
來自英漢文學(xué)
4. " No, I hear them. The car alarm gent off, but they must have disengaged it. "