Convention
[kən'venʃ(ə)n] or [kən'vɛnʃən]
解释:
(noun.) the act of convening.
(noun.) something regarded as a normative example; 'the convention of not naming the main character'; 'violence is the rule not the exception'; 'his formula for impressing visitors'.
(noun.) (diplomacy) an international agreement.
(noun.) a large formal assembly; 'political convention'.
安娜校对--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
(v. i.) General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
(v. i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.
(v. i.) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.
(v. i.) An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.
赫克托整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Assembly, meeting, CONVOCATION.[2]. Contract, compact, agreement, stipulation.
安妮特手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Assemblage, meeting, gathering, conference, cabinet, convocation, congress,session, synod, treaty, compact
ANT:Recess, non-convention, dissolution, prorogation, promise, understanding, word,parole
校对:卢埃林
解释:
n. an assembly esp. of representatives or delegates for some common object: any extraordinary assembly called upon any special occasion: any temporary treaty: an agreement: established usage: fashion.—adj. Conven′tional formed by convention: growing out of tacit agreement or custom: customary: not spontaneous.—v.t. Conven′tionalise.—ns. Conventionalism that which is established by tacit agreement as a mode of speech &c.; Conven′tionalist one who adheres to a convention or is swayed by conventionalism; Conventional′ity state of being conventional: that which is established by use or custom.—adv. Conven′tionally.—adj. Conven′tionary acting under contract.—ns. Conven′tioner Conven′tionist.
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娱乐性解释：
To dream of a convention, denotes unusual activity in business affairs and final engagement in love. An inharmonious or displeasing convention brings you disappointment.
校对:梅勒妮
例句:
- The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- This convention is not of the nature of a promise: For even promises themselves, as we shall see afterwards, arise from human conventions. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- The National Whig Convention, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President, met at Baltimore on May 1, 1844. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- I filled in a paragraph about the convention and how the vote had gone, as I was sure it would. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- He induced the Convention to decree that France believed in a Supreme Being, and in that comforting doctrine, the immortality of the soul. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There had been some kind of convention in Virginia, in which John Minor Botts was the leading figure. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- For a month he kept away from the Convention. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The National Convention met on September 21st, 1792, and immediately proclaimed a republic. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Her convention was not their convention, their standards were not her standards. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- One time there was to be a convention of the managers of Edison illuminating companies at Chicago. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- As I write, a convention of the Populist Party has just taken place. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But next day I learned that instead of there being a vote the convention had adjourned without action until the day after. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The miseries it entails are genuine miseries--not points of etiquette or infringements of convention. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It is only within the last few years that the human test has ceased to be the property of a small group and become the convention of a large majority. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- In most of us, irked by its conventions and complexities, there stirs the nomad strain. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This convention is not of the nature of a promise: For even promises themselves, as we shall see afterwards, arise from human conventions. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- No cause can succeed without them: so long as you rely on the efficacy of scientific demonstration and logical proof you can hold your conventions in anybody's back parlor and have room to spare. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The Edison phonograph industry thus organized is helped by frequent conventions of this large commercial force. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- If nature has given us no such sentiment, there is not, naturally, nor antecedent to human conventions, any such thing as property. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- In like manner are languages gradually established by human conventions without any promise. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- It was the right conventional attitude, and, as far as the world went, he believed in the conventions. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
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