| 单词 | table manners |
| 释义 | > as lemmastable manners table manners n. behaviour while eating at table, esp. that which is conventionally required or considered appropriate. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > in social intercourse > specific encounter1604 company manners1798 table manners1824 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > table manners trencher-law1598 table manners1824 1824 London Mag. Oct. 394/2 We remember we thought him rather hard on the table-manners of the Greeks. 1867 Harper's Mag. Sept. 470/1 That upright position which belongs no less to table-manners than to hygiene. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female ix. 187 In cultures where table-manners are the insignia of humanity people may be unable to eat their food at the table with some one who eats differently. 1986 ARTnews Nov. 12/1 They reacted that way because in historical films everyone tears chickens to pieces with a voracious lack of table manners. 2003 N.Y. Mag. 4 Aug. 33 It's best devoured with your hands in a kind of ecstasy of bad table manners—dripping tartar sauce and escaped oysters notwithstanding. < as lemmas |
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