1 N-VAR 风俗;习俗 A custom is an activity, a way of behaving, or an event which is usual or traditional in a particular society or in particular circumstances. 风俗;习俗
SYN tradition, practice, convention, ritual
2 N-SING [oft with poss] 个人习惯;习性;惯常行为 If it is your custom to do something, you usually do it in particular circumstances. 个人习惯;习性;惯常行为
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It was his custom to approach every problem cautiously.
他习惯谨慎地处理每一个问题。
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As is the custom, police forensic experts carried out a painstaking search of the debris.
像往常一样,警方的法医专家对残骸进行了仔细的查看。
SYN habit, way, practice, manner
3 N-UNCOUNT [usually with poss] 光顾;惠顾 If a shop has your custom, you regularly buy things there. 光顾;惠顾 [British, formal]
SYN customers, business, trade, patronage
4 ADJ [ADJ n] 定做的;量身设计的 If you use custom to describe something such as a vehicle or a piece of clothing, you mean that it has been designed for one particular customer. 定做的;量身设计的
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Her one-of-a-kind custom garments are priced from one hundred dollars to more than a thousand dollars.
在她这里定做一件款型独一无二的衣服,价格从100美元到1,000美元以上不等。
Quotations
Custom reconciles us to everything Edmund Burke The Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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More honoured in the breach than the observance William Shakespeare Hamlet
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