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单词 custom
释义
custom
kʌstəm ˈkʌstəm
Word forms: plural customs
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
  • The custom of lighting the Olympic flame goes back centuries. [+ of]

    点燃奥林匹克圣火的习俗可以追溯到几个世纪前。

  • Chung has tried to adapt to local customs.

    钟努力去适应当地的风俗习惯。

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
  • It was his custom to approach every problem cautiously.

    他习惯谨慎地处理每一个问题。

  • 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]
  • You have the right to withhold your custom if you so wish.

    如果你这么不想来,你可以不再光顾。

  • Providing discounts is not the only way to win custom.

    打折并不是招揽顾客的唯一途径。

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
  • 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。

5 See also: customs 
Quotations
Custom reconciles us to everything Edmund Burke The Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance
William Shakespeare Hamlet
Trends of custom
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