Conventional
[kən'venʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [kən'vɛnʃənl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) following accepted customs and proprieties; 'conventional wisdom'; 'she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior'; 'conventional forms of address' .
(adj.) unimaginative and conformist; 'conventional bourgeois lives'; 'conventional attitudes' .
(adj.) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; 'conventional warfare'; 'conventional weapons' .
(adj.) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; 'a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white'; 'the conventional handshake' .
(adj.) conforming with accepted standards; 'a conventional view of the world' .
(adj.) represented in simplified or symbolic form .
校對:伊薇特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
(a.) Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
(a.) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
(a.) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.
編輯:曼纽尔
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Stipulated, agreed on, bargained for.[2]. Usual, customary, common, habitual, wonted, accustomed, ordinary, regular, every-day.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Customary, usual, ordinary, stipulated, prevalent, social
ANT:Unusual, unsocial, legal, compulsory, {[stututable]?}, immutable, natural,invariable
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例句/造句/用法:
- To follow conventional methods, the final chapter of a book should be an In conclusion with a finis and a dismantled torch, but the history of invention will ever be a continued story. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It came to pass, therefore, that Physician's little dinners always presented people in their least conventional lights. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He was so conventional at home, that when he was really away, and on the loose, as now, he enjoyed nothing so much as full outrageousness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- A great outcry has arisen and a number of perfectly conventional men like Lorimer suffer an undeserved humiliation. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- His nature was clever and separate, he did not fit at all in the conventional occasion. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- She is not of a disposition to find resources in the conventional gaieties and excitements of London. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He wanted to go back to the dullest conservatism, to the most stupid of conventional people. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- In external appearance Mr. Gilmore was the exact opposite of the conventional idea of an old lawyer. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle, for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- She was never quite that set--more conventional, in a way. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Nine o'clock was an early hour for a visit, but Selden had passed beyond all such conventional observances. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- In no insignificant number of cases the vote is a cover by which revolutionary demands can be given a conventional front. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This road also had some features of conventional railroads, such as sidings, turn-tables, freight platform, and car-house. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It was traced on ruled lines, in the cramped, conventional, copy-book character technically termed small hand. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Mary, who was no less conventional, and no more intelligent, yet led a larger life and held more tolerant views. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- If the conventional Cherub could ever grow up and be clothed, he might be photographed as a portrait of Wilfer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The silent drama, however, calls also for many representations which employ conventional acting, staging, and the varied appliances of stagecraft. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- If we act upon this conviction, we shall secure more originality even by the conventional standard than now develops. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Who, taking his stand on the floor before them as chief executioner, would be attended by a conventional volunteer boy as executioner's assistant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- No attempt has been made to conform with strictly scientific terminology, but, for the benefit of the general reader, well-understood conventional expressions, such as flow of current, etc. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Archer checked the conventional phrases of self-accusal that were crowding to his lips. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I am not so conventional as most Englishmen, said Maurice impatiently, and therefore do not act by rule. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Work which remains permeated with the play attitude is art--in quality if not in conventional designation. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Every outward sign was to be conventional; but the one great fact would be there to satisfy him--he would see her. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Previous to that time they were dull and conventional in appearance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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