She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days.
她是那种美丽而又弱不禁风的女人,男人们对她都很殷勤。
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(Laughter) But rather than freeze as I would have historically done or chivalrously maybe informed her of her error, I just tried to keep the conversation going.
(笑声) 但我并没有像过去那样僵住,或者勇敢地告诉她她的错误,我只是试图让谈话继续下去。
纯真年代(上)
" Nice" women, however wronged, would never claim the kind of freedom he meant, and generous-minded men like himself were therefore—in the heat of argument—the more chivalrously ready to concede it to them.
I learned long ago that a gentleman should live chivalrously and lovingly to God, and the king, and his lady; and though I have seen many strange things done, I have still striven to command my ways upon that rule.