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美音:[´kʌstəm ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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n.习惯,风俗,<动词单用>海关,(封建制度下)定期服劳役,缴纳租税,自定义,<偶用作>关税 v.定制,承接定做活的

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/'kʌstəm; `kʌstəm/
n
1 (a) [C, U] usual, generally accepted and long-established way of behaving or doing things 习俗; 风俗
*It is difficult to get used to another country's customs. 要适应另一国家的风俗习惯是很困难的.
* the customs of the Eskimos 爱斯基摩人的风俗
* a slave to custom, ie sb who does what most people do and have always done 习俗的奴隶
* procedures laid down by ancient custom 依照古老的习俗制定的程序.
(b) [C] thing that sb habitually does; practice 个人的习惯
*It is my custom to rise early. 早起是我的习惯.
2 [U] regular purchases from a tradesman, shop, etc 经常向某商人、商店等购物
*We would like to have your custom, ie would like you to buy our goods. 我们欢迎您经常惠顾.
* We've lost a lot of custom since our prices went up, ie Fewer goods have been bought from us. 自从提价以後, 我们失去了许多顾客的生意.
* I shall withdraw my custom (ie stop buying goods) from that shop. 我不再去那家商店买东西了.

/'kʌstəm; `kʌstəm/
adj [attrib 作定语] made as the buyer specifies, rather than as a standard model 定做的
*a custom car 定制的汽车.
1. But the windowing custom is only one example of the surprising views of marriage that have existed around the world.
    但是爬窗这种风俗仅仅是世界上存在过的、让人感到吃惊的婚姻观点中的一个例子而已。

2. They observed the New Year Eve in conformity with custom.
    他们按习俗过除夕夜。

3. The custom is of Scottish derivation.
    这种风俗起源于苏格兰。

4. The custom is of Scottish derivation.
    这种风俗起源于苏格兰。

5. They adhere to the traditional custom.
    他们固守传统习俗。

6. Traditional custom, taken the world over, is a mass of detailed behaviour more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions, no matter how aberrant.
    从世界范围来看,传统风俗是由许多细节性的习惯行为组成,它比任何一个养成的行为都更加引人注目,不管个人行为多么异常。

7. The fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and in belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.
    最重要的是,风俗在实践中和信仰上所起的举足轻重的作用,以及它所表现出来的极其丰富多采的形式。

8. There is no social problem it is more incumbent upon us to understand than this of the role of custom.
    没有任何一个社会问题比得上风俗的作用问题更要求我们对它理解。

9. The study of custom can be profitable only after certain preliminary propositions have been accepted, and some of these propositions have been violently opposed.
    只有在某些基本的主张被接受下来、同时有些主张被激烈反对时,对风俗的研究才是全面的,才会有收获。

10. Today some men agree with the old custom of having as many wives as desired.
    现在有些男人赞成那种想要多少妻子就可以拥有多少妻子的古老风俗。

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