Etiquette
['etɪket;etɪ'ket] or ['ɛtɪkɛt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
查理校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Prescribed form (of behavior, as that set down on a card or ticket on the occasion of ceremonies at court), fashionable ceremony, ceremonial code, forms of good breeding, conventional decorum.
手打:内蒂
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Manners, breeding, fashion, conventionality
ANT:boorishness, rudeness, misobservance, singularity, nonconformance
杰西編輯
解釋/意思:
n. forms of ceremony or decorum: ceremony: the unwritten laws of courtesy observed between members of the same profession as 'medical etiquette.'
手打:兰斯洛特
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A convenient code of conduct which makes Lying a virtue and Snobbishness a righteous deed.
海丝特編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Old New York scrupulously observed the etiquette of hospitality, and no discussion with a guest was ever allowed to degenerate into a disagreement. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- In everything else the etiquette of the day might stand the strictest investigation. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Etiquette required that she should wait, immovable as an idol, while the men who wished to converse with her succeeded each other at her side. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- She wondered, indeed, at his thinking it necessary to do so; but supposed it to be the proper etiquette. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- The miseries it entails are genuine miseries--not points of etiquette or infringements of convention. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Mrs. Vincy sprang to the window and opened it in an instant, thinking only of Fred and not of medical etiquette. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They enjoyed about equally the mysterious privilege of medical reputation, and concealed with much etiquette their contempt for each other's skill. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
編輯:朱利叶斯