convention是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 会议, 协定; 惯例; 习俗，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "They came out at a medical convention in Philadelphia in 1902," Ira condescended.
-- He returned from the state convention of the Modern Woodmen of America with notions.
-- Dear old Chum!That was when I was in Zenith to address the national convention of Congregational Sunday-schools, I happen to be a Congregationalist myself, on 'The Morality of A1 Health.'
-- And in a great convention at Waterloo he had helped organize the first regiment in Iowa of the Anti- rum Minute Men.
-- It chanced that the Fraternal Order of Eagles were holding a state convention at Burlington that week, and Pickerbaugh telegraphed to them: Just mention fly-prevention At the good old Eagles' convention.
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：
-- I am not going on principle, not to take part in the revolt-ing convention of memorial dinners, that's why!Though, of course, one might go to laugh at it芒聙娄.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The change had been sogradual, the flouting of one small convention seeming to have no connection with the flouting of another, and none ofthem any connection with Rhett.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her convention was not their convention, their standards were not her standards.
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：
-- He was only caught in the general, popular recoil of the young against convention and against any sort of real authority.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
-- But here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no hold on him; he was like a wrestler whose body is oiled; you could not get a grip on him; it gave him a freedom which was an outrage.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Convention to say: "You shall not better your situation save by honest labour."
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