Custom
['kʌstəm]
解释:
(noun.) accepted or habitual practice.
(noun.) habitual patronage; 'I have given this tailor my custom for many years'.
(noun.) a specific practice of long standing.
录入:莫拉--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
(n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
(n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
(n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
(v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.
(v. t.) To supply with customers.
(v. i.) To have a custom.
(n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
(n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
(v. t.) To pay the customs of.
霍奇编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Habit (of a majority), usage, fashion, practice, rule.[2]. Form, formality, observance.[3]. Patronage.[4]. Tax, impost, duty, tribute, toll.
伊凡手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Manner, habit, use, usage, fashion, practice, prescription
ANT:Law, regulation, dictate, command, rule, disuse, nonobservance, desuetude
班森编辑
解释:
n. what one is wont to do: usage: frequent repetition of the same act: regular trade or business: a tax on goods: (pl.) duties imposed on imports and exports.—adj. Cus′tomable customary: common.—adv. Cus′tomarily.—n. Cus′tomariness.—adjs. Cus′tomary according to use and wont: holding or held by custom; Cus′tomed accustomed: usual.—ns. Cus′tomer one accustomed to frequent a certain place of business: a buyer: (slang) a person; Cus′tom-house the place where customs or duties on exports and imports are collected.—adj. Cus′tom-shrunk (Shak.) having fewer customers than formerly.
埃伦校对
例句:
- I have already told the reader, that every night, when the family were gone to bed, it was my custom to strip, and cover myself with my clothes. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- How would the lady-chief of an English school approve this custom? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I do not know, said the man, what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- It is a pity, cried Fanny, that the custom should have been discontinued. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Our invariable custom,' replied Mr. Wardle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- But, of course, among Lily's friends it's quite the custom for girls to play for money. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- As is the custom upon Barsoom there were thirty-one, supposedly selected by lot from men of the noble class, for nobles were on trial. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- There is also another custom peculiar to the city of Philadelphia, and nearly allied to the former. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The word raises up an individual idea, along with a certain custom; and that custom produces any other individual one, for which we may have occasion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- I described to him how, when according to his custom he was the first down, he perceived a strange horse wandering over the moor. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Meantime, there's a few shillings for you, Grace, just to keep the pot boiling till custom comes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- They were all eating out of the platter, not speaking, as is the Spanish custom. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Therefore, give your custom to other than Italian brands of the article. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Mistakes with regard to this sometimes ruin the custom-house officer, and frequently occasion much trouble, expense, and vexation to the importer. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- We are ruled by custom upon Barsoom. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- But in the seaport and markets mingled men of every known race, comparing their religious ideas and customs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The coach-tax and plate tax are examples of the former method of imposing; the greater part of the other duties of excise and customs, of the latter. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Every where around are things that reveal to you something of the customs and history of this forgotten people. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The ancient customs were divided into three branches. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He was heard outside quoting Euripides in a bold and disrespectful tone: Are these your customs? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- All this, it seemed, had been the property of the two chieftains I had slain, and now, by the customs of the Tharks, it had become mine. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- My knowledge of their customs lent colour to the belief that he was but being escorted to the audience chamber to have sentence passed upon him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- And they began to interfere more vigorously with Indian customs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- How did he know, who knew nothing of the customs of human beings? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The defalcation of the revenue of customs occasioned by bounties and drawbacks, of which a great part are obtained fraudulently, is very great. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Amy, my dear, put this dish on; Mr Clennam will excuse the primitive customs to which we are reduced here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Yes, said Justinian quickly; I keep up all the old Greek customs, though, of course, I adapt them to the needs of my people. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
编辑:莉齐