MIND YOUR ETIQUETTE: THE NEW EMILY POST

1. Etiquette:
- Mind Your Etiquette (phép lịch sự): The New Emily Post (title)
- Etiquitte? Get serious! (1)
- Most people, it seems, haven’t a clue what etiquette means (2)
- “Etiquette is code of behavior based on consideration and thoughtfulness,
and it’s a fallacy that only certain people need it” said Peggy Post, the
doyenne of the etiquette gurus, who for almost eight decades has stood
for what’s proper in social behavior (3)
- She has just updated “Emily Post’s Etiquette” for the 75th-anniversary
edition, which will be published by HarperCollins next month (3)
- The whole thing about etiquette is to make life easier (3)
- Emily Post was 51 in 1992 when her first etiquette guide, “Etiqutte: The
Blue Book of Social Usage”, was published (6)
- Reflecting the changes in society, Peggy Post’s style is not quite as
formal as Emily Post’s, but neither is it as breezy or irreverent as many of
the current crop of etiquette books (8)
- It wasn’t until after raising two stepsons that she began her
apprenticeship with the Emily Post Institute, the umbrella organization
for the Emily Post franchise, which includes 13 books, a Good
Housekeeping magazine column that has run for 25 years and etiquette
lectures (11)
- There has been a vast improvement in etiquette in this country since
Emily Post’s Day (14)
- What have racism and sexism to do with etiquette? (14)
- “Etiquette is for respect and dignity”, she said (14)
- Serious and alarming are two of the words used, but Post, Martin and
Letitia Baldrige, who has seven etiquette books under her belt, maintain
nevertheless that the pendulum is swinging (15)
- I think etiquette is on the upswing (17)
2. Crook one’s pinkie: You never crook your pinkie (cong ngón út) when
holding a cup (1)
3. Priestess: That attitude is likely to give a high priestess (nữ tu) of manners a
hissy fit (2)
4. A hissy fit: That attitude is likely to give a high priestess of manners a hissy
fit ( cơn tức giận đột ngột) (2)
5. Fallacy: Etiquette is code of behavior based on consideration and
thoughtfulness, and it’s a fallacy (ảo tưởng sai lầm) that only certain people
need it (3)
6. Inherit: Peggy Post has inhertited (thừa kế) the legacy (3)
7. Corrode: The taboo started because knives used to become corroded (gặm
mòn) from salad dressing (4)
8. Corrosion:
9. Perk up: Brides should perk up (ngẩng đầu) at this one: there’s no reason
why the bridegroom shouldn’t do his share of note writing and many more
now do (4)
10.Irreverent: Reflecting the changes in society, Peggy Post’s style is not quite
as formal as Emily Post’s, but neither is it as breezy or irreverent (bất kính)
as many of the current crop of etiquette books (8)
11.Breezy: Reflecting the changes in society, Peggy Post’s style is not quite as
formal as Emily Post’s, but neither is it as breezy (hoạt bát) or irreverent as
many of the current crop of etiquette books (8)
12.Parentage: Suggestion on the legal aspects of living together and how
single mothers might deal with their children’s question on parentage (nguồn
gốc tổ tiên) (12)
13.A sign of time: And a sign of the time (xu hướng thời đại) : the word
“servant” is out (12)
14.Belittle: I don’t like jokes that belittle (xem thường) people (13)
15.Take one’s leave: Simply get up and take your leave (rời khỏi) (13)
16.Ettiquette maven: This from the etiquette maven (chuyên gia về phép lịch
sự) who wrote “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization” (14)
17.Pendulum: Serious and alarming are two of the words used, but Post,
Martin and Letitia Baldrige, who has seven etiquette books under her belt,
maintain nevertheless that the pendulum (con lắc) is swinging (15)
18.Deplore: Martin points out that more than a generation ago society went
through a phase of deploring (phàn nàn) anything antificial and asked, Why
can’t people just behave naturally? (16)
19.On the upswing: I think etiquette is on the upswing (trở nên phổ biến) (17)
20. Get away with it: The kids who got away with it (thoát tội) now know
better (17)