conventional是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 惯例的， 常规的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next morning they crossed the conventional line which separates the Argentine plains from the region of the Pampas.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dolly looked coldly at Anna; she was waiting now for phrases of conventional sympathy, but Anna said nothing of the sort.
-- But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then--all the combinaisons made--they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He who ridiculed conventional honor had the honor, as he had the pride, of a savage old squire.
-- Mrs. Pickerbaugh sighed: "I suppose it would be dreadfully conventional to call them My Jewels--I do so hate these conventional phrases that everybody uses, don't you?--but that's what they really are to their mother, and the Doctor and I have sometimes wished-- Of course when we'd started giving them floral names we had to keep it up, but if we'd started with jewels, just think of all the darling names we might have used, like Agate and Cameo and Sardonyx and Beryl and Topaz and Opal and Esmeralda and Chrysoprase--it IS Chrysoprase, isn't it, not Chrysalis?
-- Suddenly she babbled, "I know there's lots of conventional people that would say we'd done wrong, and perhaps I'd have thought so, one time, but-- Oh, I'm terribly glad I'm liberal!Of course I wouldn't hurt dear Leora or do anything REALLY wrong for the world, but isn't it wonderful that with so many bourgeois folks all around, we can rise above them and realize the call that strength makes to strength and-- But I've simply GOT to be at the Y.W.C.A.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then a man may do nothing but harm to his neighbour in this world, and is prevented from do-ing the tiniest bit of good by trivial conventional formalities.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As helay in bed, face upward, and so covered, with that exception, thathe seemed to be nothing but a face- like a conventional cherubim-he looked the queerest object I ever beheld.
-- They presented theircompliments to Mr. Copperfield, and informed him that they hadgiven his letter their best consideration, 'with a view to thehappiness of both parties'- which I thought rather an alarmingexpression, not only because of the use they had made of it inrelation to the family difference before-mentioned, but because Ihad (and have all my life) observed that conventional phrases are asort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety ofshapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.
-- When Mrs.Micawber has her sea-legs on- an expression in which I hope thereis no conventional impropriety- she will give them, I dare say,Little Tafflin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true.
-- I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds; but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bounderby,' said Jem, turning with a smile to Louisa, 'is a noble animal in a comparatively natural state, quite free from the harness in which a conventional hack like myself works.'
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：
-- But angry honesty made a 'bad man' of him, and mealy-mouthedness made a 'nice woman' of her, in the vicious, conventional channelling of sympathy by Mrs Bolton.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We know it is hollow and conventional and worldly and very shocking, but unless we are Savages in the Tropical seas (I should have been charmed to be one myself most delightful life and perfect climate, I am told), we must consult it.
-- The host, a slender, bright-eyed, dark young man of polite manners, whose garment was a black gown with strips of white crossed over it like braces, and who no more resembled the conventional breed of Saint Bernard monks than he resembled the conventional breed of Saint Bernard dogs, replied, doubtless those were the three in question.
-- There was something almost ludicrous in the complete irreconcilability of a vague conventional notion that he must be a visionary man, with the precise, sagacious travelling of his eye and thumb over the plans, their patient stoppages at particular points, their careful returns to other points whence little channels of explanation had to be traced up, and his steady manner of making everything good and everything sound at each important stage, before taking his hearer on a line's-breadth further.
-- It came to pass, therefore, that Physician's little dinners always presented people in their least conventional lights.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her maidenly reserve, and a certain sense of what was conventional under the circumstances, called her to forestall and deny this familiarity, but the daring and magnetism of the individual, born of past experiences and triumphs, prevailed.
-- Her knowledge of life extended to that little conventional round of society of which she was not--but longed to be--a member.
-- He would visit the local resorts, or those near by in Wisconsin, and spend a few stiff, polished days strolling about conventional places doing conventional things.
-- It ran along by force of habit, by force of conventional opinion.
-- Society possesses a conventional standard whereby it judges all things.
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