Doormen often wear elaborate uniforms that are meant to give the hotel an elegant note.

门童通常穿着精致的制服，给宾馆一种优雅的感觉。

At a nearby hotel one of the doormen buttons Porter's top shirt button and slips on his clip-on tie.

附近一家旅馆的门卫替他扣上衬衣最上面一粒纽扣，戴上用别针别上的领带。

On that morning of November 28, 2008, bargain-hungry crowds were staring down guards and doormen across America.

在2008年11月28日的那天早上，在全美各地，对打折趋之若鹜的人们双眼紧盯得保安和门卫都不敢与他们对视。

Security guards dressed as five-star-hotel doormen keep them in order before the sales centre opens for the first time.

警卫们穿着类似五星级酒店门卫的制服，毕恭毕敬站在售楼中心门口以迎接开盘的第一波买房热潮。

Throughout your trip, get to know the front desk clerks, doormen, concierge, and valets and chat with them as you can.

在整个旅程中，你可以去认识前台的工作人员，看门人或服务员，然后跟他们聊天。

Doormen Depending on the amount of luggage, tip $ 1 to $ 2 to the doorman who takes your bags and turns them over to a bellman.

门卫给门卫的小费数目取决于行李的多少，为你拿行李并把它递给行李员的门卫要付给1至2美元的小费。

Services include doormen, concierge for taxi/car hire, restaurant/theatre bookings, shopping delivery/services, dry cleaning/tailoringand car valet/servicing.

服务包括门卫、礼宾出租车/租车/剧场，餐厅预订、购物配送服务、干洗/裁剪和车代客/维修。

Tip: If your handwriting will have her wondering why you think her eyes twinkle like doormen and her lips taste like straw beds, consider hiring a calligrapher.

小贴士：如果你的笔迹想使她想到为什么你认为她的眼睛像看门人那样闪亮，她的嘴唇有稻草床的味道。那你要考虑雇一个书法家。

Tipping is the most prominent underlying rule in American society. Doormen in hotel, waiters in restaurant are paid with relatively low salary by their managers.

小费大概得算上美国社会最重要的“潜规则”，对于酒店的门童、餐馆的服务员，老板有意会付比较低的工资，小费成了他们主要的收入。

Usually I give them to friends or as gifts at Christmas to doormen and other loosely connected personnel of the household, but often I keep them and use them myself.

通常，我把它们送给朋友，或是作为圣诞礼物送给看门人和家里其他打交道不多的雇员。

Perhaps, the tip might be regarded as the most important underlying rule in America. The bosses of the restaurants will prefer to offer a low pay to the doormen and the waiters.

小费大概得算上美国社会最重要的“潜规则”，对于酒店的门童、餐馆的服务员，老板有意会付比较低的工资，小费成了他们主要的收入。