核心畫面

Picture an occasion where the actions are not chosen on the spot: everyone stands, someone speaks the set words, the certificate is handed over in the way it is always handed over. The word names that event, the formal manner itself, and — in one phrase — the plainness of doing something with none of it.

可以想成:一個場合裡的動作都不是臨時決定的——大家起立、有人念出固定的詞、獎狀照著一貫的方式遞出去。這個字指的是那個更多收起可以想成:一個場合裡的動作都不是臨時決定的——大家起立、有人念出固定的詞、獎狀照著一貫的方式遞出去。這個字指的是那個場合本身、那套正式的做法,以及(在一個固定片語裡)完全不講究這套的做法。

From the picture

完全不講究排場(片語)

把那套正式做法整個拿掉:不鋪陳、不客套,直接就做了。

without ceremony · noun · B1

Used in the phrase 'without ceremony' to mean doing something in a quick, plain way, with no special politeness.

(without ceremony)不客氣地;乾脆地

Also in this word

formal event · noun · B1

A formal public event that follows a fixed order of traditional actions.

典禮;儀式

formal customs · noun · B1

The special formal actions and words that are traditionally used on important occasions.

禮節;排場

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

ceremonynoun/ˈsɛɹ.ɪ.mə.ni/

  • 1

    A ritual, with religious or cultural significance.

    • To whom the Priest with naked armes full net Approching nigh, and murdrous knife well whet, Gan mutter close a certaine secret charme, With other diuelish ceremonies met:
    • In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep [the passover] in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
  • 2

    An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.

    • a graduation ceremony, an opening ceremony
    • Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.
  • 3

    An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.

  • 4

    A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks; formality.

    • […] to feed were best at home; From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.
    • Monsieur Bridet, notwithstanding his costume and his evident harrassment [sic], found in himself the presence of mind to remain the attentive manager, and with ceremony effected the proper introduction.
  • 5

    Show of magnificence, display, ostentation.

    • Meanwhile the winged Heralds, by command Of sovereign power, with awful ceremony And trumpet’s sound, throughout the host proclaim A solemn council forthwith to be held At Pandemonium […]
    • Immediately after her arrival, the queen rode forth to survey the camp and its environs: wherever she went, she was attended by a splendid retinue; and all the commanders vied with each other, in the pomp and ceremony with which they received her.
  • 6

    obsoleteAn accessory or object associated with a ritual.

    • […] his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man […]
    • […] Well, believe this, No ceremony that to great ones ’longs, Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
  • 7

    obsoleteAn omen or portent.

    • For he is superstitious grown of late, Quite from the main opinion he held once Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.
    • Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, Yet now they fright me.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。