下一个难点是如何正确描述要请宾客吃哪顿饭。Dinner这个词究竟是说午饭还是晚餐?可以使用lunch和supper吗?它们会不会立刻显得你没那么高大上?正确的说法是,午餐应该叫lunch甚至luncheon,晚餐则叫dinner。管午餐叫dinner或是管晚餐叫evening meal都会暴露你非上流社会的出身。要是一位客人说今晚的supper真不错,那他不是在暗示晚餐不够丰盛,就是说它不够美味。
Never issue an invitation to high-tea, as this is an exclusively non-U invention.
绝对不要邀请别人参加high-tea,只有非上流社会的人才会使用这个词。
When stating the dress code, be sure not to use the terms dress-suit or evening-dress. The refined equivalent is to state simply: "We will be changing for dinner". How your guest is supposed to glean what to wear from this is a mystery to me, but I suppose that is precisely the point. If you have to ask, you shouldn’t be going.
提到着装规定时,一定不要用dress-suit或evening-dress,而是简单的说 “We will be changing for dinner”就可以了。对我来说,客人们如何领会该穿什么其实是个谜,但这正是关键所在。如果不知道穿什么,你就不应该去。
Before the meal
宴会前
Should you be lucky enough to receive a return invitation, never arrive by bus. Should necessity require you to make use of public transport, be sure to muddle the terms bus and coach (properly, the former is used in towns and the latter in the country) to show that you are unaccustomed to such degradations.
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