table manners

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Around the world,people have different ideas about what "good" table manners are.
在世界各地,人們對于好的餐桌禮儀有不同的看法.
It is 1740, and they are learning to eat. Or rather, they are learning table manners.
這是1740年，這些孩子正在學(xué)吃飯，或者更恰當(dāng)?shù)卣f，他們在學(xué)習(xí)餐桌禮儀。
But the one thing that truly places the book in the past is its advice on table manners.
但是真正讓這本書在過去風(fēng)靡一時的是，它給以人們以餐桌禮儀的建議。

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the way you eat your food, or the socially acceptable way to eat your food, especially when eating a meal with others

You can use table manners to refer to the way you behave when you are eating a meal at a table.