tradition是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 传统， 惯例， 传说，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tradition of the Law was clearly losing its force.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tradition is kept up here that you are the best of skaters," she said, with her little black-gloved hand brushing a grain of hoarfrost off her muff.
-- Altogether their honeymoon--that is to say, the month after their wedding--from which from tradition Levin expected so much, was not merely not a time of sweetness, but remained in the memories of both as the bitterest and most humiliating period in their lives.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scout alludes to a tradition which is very popular among the tribes of the Atlantic states.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a feeling of New England in its brick and sycamore villages, its stable industries, and a tradition which goes back to the Revolutionary War.
-- It was the tradition that faculty-members did not discuss their colleagues with students, but Max Gottlieb could not be regarded as anybody's colleague.
-- Look at these great strapping girls, Arrowsmith!Never been sick a day in their lives--practically--and though Mother does have her sick- headaches, that's to be attributed to the early neglect of her diet, because while her father, the old deacon--and a fine upstanding gentleman of the old school he was, too, if there ever was one, and a friend of Nathaniel Mugford, to whom more than any other we owe not only the foundation of Mugford College but also the tradition of integrity and industry which have produced our present prosperity--BUT he had no knowledge of diet or sanitation, and I've always thought--" The daughters were introduced as Orchid, Verbena, Daisy, Jonquil, Hibisca, Narcissa, and the twins, Arbuta and Gladiola.
-- If you would get Gottlieb to back me, to talk to McGurk-- Of course in taking the Directorship I would be making a sacrifice, because I'd have to give up my research, but I'd be willing because I feel, really, that somebody with a Tradition ought to carry on the control.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he was not one of those rough spirits who would strip fair Truth of every little shadowy vestment in which time and teeming fancies love to array her and some of which become her pleasantly enough, serving, like the waters of her well, to add new graces to the charms they half conceal and half suggest, and to awaken interest and pursuit rather than languor and indifference as, unlike this stern and obdurate class, he loved to see the goddess crowned with those garlands of wild flowers which tradition wreathes for her gentle wearing, and which are often freshest in their homeliest shapes he trod with a light step and bore with a light hand upon the dust of centuries, unwilling to demolish any of the airy shrines that had been raised above it, if any good feeling or affection of the human heart were hiding thereabouts.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled inunspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
-- She had been reared in the tradition of great ladies, which had taught her how to carry her burden and still retainher charm, and she intended that her three daughters should be great ladies also.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He approved of the tradition mentioned by the hon- 347ourable member who spoke before, and affirmed, that the two Yahoos said to be seen first among them, had been driven thither over the sea; that coming to land, and being forsaken by their companions, they retired to the moun-tains, and degenerating by degrees, became in process of time much more savage than those of their own species in the country whence these two originals came.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lastly, she was guardian over a little armoury of cutlasses and carbines, arrayed in vengeful order above one of the official chimney-pieces; and over that respectable tradition never to be separated from a place of business claiming to be wealthy a row of fire-buckets vessels calculated to be of no physical utility on any occasion, but observed to exercise a fine moral influence, almost equal to bullion, on most beholders.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The tradition of England!of this!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His words were remembered and repeated; and tradition afterwards handed down from generation to generation a Marshalsea generation might be calculated as about three months that the shabby old debtor with the soft manner and the white hair, was the Father of the Marshalsea.
-- The Child of the MarshalseaThe baby whose first draught of air had been tinctured with Doctor Haggage's brandy, was handed down among the generations of collegians, like the tradition of their common parent.
-- The more practical of its inmates abided by the tradition of a murder; the gentler and more imaginative inhabitants, including the whole of the tender sex, were loyal to the legend of a young lady of former times closely imprisoned in her chamber by a cruel father for remaining true to her own true love, and refusing to marry the suitor he chose for her.
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