- 1禮儀、場合上應有的得體舉止（偏正式；不是日常口語的「禮貌」那麼輕）
Decorum is the polite, careful behaviour that a situation asks for, especially a formal one. Keeping decorum means not shouting, not joking at the wrong time, not dressing in a way that shocks the room. Judges, teachers, and ceremony hosts talk about it; newspapers say someone broke decorum in parliament or at a funeral. It is a formal noun. Though actually, decorum is not one fixed list of rules for all of life. What counts as decorum at a wedding is not what counts at a football match. People also say a sense of decorum, meaning an inner feeling for what would be too much. It is close to manners, but manners can be warm and small — saying please in a shop. Decorum is manners with a stiff collar on. It is also not decoration, even though the first letters match: this word is about how people behave, not how a room looks.
組成A learned borrowing from Latin decōrum, the neuter form of decōrus (proper, decent).
同家族的字
- decorousthe adjective: showing that proper behaviour
- decorouslythe adverb: in a way that keeps decorum
- decorsame Latin root, but English decor is the look of a room, not behaviour
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
decorumnoun/dɪˈkɔːɹəm/
- 1
Appropriate social behavior.
- Everyone was assembled in the dining-room. Under the circumstances, we were naturally not a cheerful party. The reaction after a shock is always trying, and I think we were all suffering from it. Decorum and good breeding naturally enjoined that our demeanour should be much as usual, yet I could not help wondering if this self-control were really a matter of great difficulty. There were no red eyes, no signs of secretly indulged grief.
- It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.
- 2
A convention of social behavior.
- In the architecture and embellishments of the chamber, the evident design was to dazzle and astound. Little attention had been paid to the decora of what is technically called “keeping,” or to the proprieties of nationality. The eye wandered from object to object, and rested upon none; neither the “Grotesques” of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge carvings of untutored Egypt.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。