1·It is no longer simply enough for a concierge to be able to book a restaurant table or a show.
作为一个酒店门房，仅仅能够帮助客人预订一个餐厅座位或购买一张演出门票，已经远远不够了。
2·Knowledgeable about private planes, luxury cars and new gadgetry, Salem became, as Coll puts it, a “royal concierge.”
他对私人飞机，豪华汽车和新潮玩意了如指掌，科尔形容他是“王室的门房”。
3·To find such places, don't ask the concierge for advice, but chat up a local storeowner, rental car clerk or hotel maid, or visit social review websites such as Chowhound or Yelp.
要找到这样的地方，你不必询问门房，只要和当地的小店店主，租车公司员工或是酒店服务员闲聊几句，或是访问当地的Chowhound和Yelp网站就行了。
4·Mr de Kosar is every inch the traditional, uniformed hotel concierge with a typical old-style background in the job – he joined The Ritz as a pageboy straight from school.
德科尔萨完全就是一个传统的、穿制服的酒店门房，而且拥有这个职业的典型传统背景——他毕业后就来到丽思酒店当了一个小跑堂。
5·At a luxury hotel in Japan, for example, if you try to tip anyone from the wait staff at a top restaurant to the hotel concierge, your gesture will be perceived as a rude and flagrant show of wealth.
比如在日本的一家豪华宾馆里，如果你给任何一位顶级餐馆的侍者或宾馆门房服务员小费，那么会被认为是一种粗鲁摆阔的行为；