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con.ven.tion CUSTOMkEn5vent7F[nn(an example of) a way of behaving esp. in social situations, which is accepted by most people in a particular society and often follows a way of thinking or a custom belonging to the past传统，社会习俗，常例，惯例In some countries, it's a convention that the guests wear black or dark-coloured clothes. [C + that clause]在某些国家有宾客须穿黑色或深色衣服的习俗。Convention dictates that it is the man who asks the woman to marry him and not the reverse根据传统应由男人向女人求婚而不是相反。They defied/flouted convention by giving up their jobs and producing all their own food and other needs themselves. [U]他们通过放弃工作、自己生产、自给自足来蔑视传统。The British Constitution is founded upon convention, as well as laws. [U]英国宪法以法律，更以传统为其基础。A convention is also a common way of showing something in art or writing.(艺术、写作上的)传统手法The novelist James Joyce broke with many of the conventions of literature. [C]小说家詹姆斯·乔伊斯突破了文学创作上的许多传统手法。
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