Decorum

decorum







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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    端莊,彬彬有禮;合宜[U]

                      levity not in keeping with decorum

                      與端莊穩重不協調的輕浮

          2.    節,禮儀[P]

                      observe decorums

                      恪守禮節





　This is an alarming [breach] of school decorum, and leads to a parent-teacher-student conference, during which I kept hoping someone would quote Rodney Dangerfield: "When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with."





see decoy demure prim axiom