0 behaving in a way that is socially correct and shows understanding of and care for other people's feelings -- 有礼貌的
I'm afraid I wasn't very polite to her. 恐怕那时我对她有点不礼貌。
She sent me a polite letter thanking me for my invitation. 她给我写了一封客气的信，感谢我的邀请。
polite conversation 温文尔雅的谈话
Sex never used to be discussed in polite society. 过去在上流社会从来不谈有关性的问题。
She was polite but not excessively so.
"Try to be polite to him." "Like hell I will!"
He was unusually polite.
They're very polite in your presence, but you get the feeling they're laughing up their sleeves.
With engineers and administrators he was always polite and exceedingly friendly.
The seminar quietly finessed the definitional question, not without a few polite demurs.
Their approaches to these senior figures were invariably polite and deferential, at least initially.
