Conventionality
[kən,venʃə'nælɪtɪ] or [kən,vɛnʃən'æləti]
解释:
(noun.) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional.
(noun.) unoriginality as a result of being too conventional.
(noun.) conformity with conventional thought and behavior.
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解释:
(n.) The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
编辑:莉齐
例句:
- And every nation has its pope of conventionality. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Slaves to gain, slaves to art, slaves to conventionality, slaves to everything; and what do they gain by such slavery? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Conventionality is not morality. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- She had advanced to the secret recesses of sensuousness, yet had hardly crossed the threshold of conventionality. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Those Furies, the conventionalities, being thus appeased, he left her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
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