customs是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 海关，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：
-- If he had any fault it was his being so intensely Scotch from top to toe, a Caledonian of the Caledonians, an obstinate stickler for all the ancient customs of his country.
-- Glenarvan, an experienced traveler, who knew how to adapt himself to the customs of other countries, adopted the Chilian costume for himself and his whole party.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this respect the House was much on a par with the Country; which did very often disinherit its sons for suggesting improvements in laws and customs that had long been highly objection-72 A tale of two citiesable, but were only the more respectable.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A keen observer of English customs relates that, being in one of the rooms of the Bank one day, he had the curiosity to examine a gold ingot weighing some seven or eight pounds.
-- It takes particular care that the religious customs of the Indians should be respected, and if your servant were caught ""Very well, Sir Francis," replied Mr. Fogg; "if he had been caught he would have been condemned and punished, and then would have quietly returned to Europe.
-- "Is it possible," resumed Phileas Fogg, his voice betraying not the least emotion, "that these barbarous customs still exist in India, and that the English have been unable to put a stop to them?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no face along the dim waterfront--warehouses, tram station, mean hotels--and they ground against a pier, they went ashore, without attention from customs officials.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the comple- tion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country.
-- 'She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill. Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquaint-ed with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I am now generalizing a period of my life with the object of clearing my way before me, I can scarcely do so better than by at once completing the description of our usual manners and customs at Barnard's Inn.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are some laws and customs in this empire very pe-culiar; and if they were not so directly contrary to those of my own dear country, I should be tempted to say a little in their justification.
-- He desired 'I would give him as exact an account of the government of England as I possibly could; because, as fond as princes commonly are of their own customs (for so he conjectured of other mon-archs, by my former discourses), he should be glad to hear of any thing that might deserve imitation.'
-- But great allowances should be given to a king, who lives wholly secluded from the rest of the world, and must therefore be altogether unacquainted with the manners and customs that most prevail in other nations: the want of which knowledge will ever produce many prejudices, and a certain narrowness of thinking, from which we, and the politer countries of Europe, are wholly exempted.
-- My answer was, 'that we were overstocked with books of travels: that nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary; wherein I doubted some authors less consulted truth, than their own vanity, or in-terest, or the diversion of ignorant readers; that my story could contain little beside common events, without those ornamental descriptions of strange plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound.
-- Having lived three years in this country, the reader, I suppose, will expect that I should, like other travellers, give him some account of the manners and customs of its inhab-itants, which it was indeed my principal study to learn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew all about all the Water Sheds of all the world (whatever they are), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains, and all the productions, manners, and customs of all the countries, and all their boundaries and bearings on the two and thirty points of the compass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Offenders against the revenue laws, and defaulters to excise or customs who had incurred fines which they were unable to pay, were supposed to be incarcerated behind an iron-plated door closing up a second prison, consisting of a strong cell or two, and a blind alley some yard and a half wide, which formed the mysterious termination of the very limited skittle-ground in which the Marshalsea debtors bowled down their troubles.
-- Amy, my dear, put this dish on; Mr Clennam will excuse the primitive customs to which we are reduced here.
-- 'Dear dear,' said Flora, 'only to think of the changes at home Arthur cannot overcome it, and seems so natural, Mr Clennam far more proper since you became familiar with the Chinese customs and language which I am persuaded you speak like a Native if not better for you were always quick and clever though immensely difficult no doubt, I am sure the tea chests alone would kill me if I tried, such changes Arthur I am doing it again, seems so natural, most improper as no one could have believed, who could have ever imagined Mrs Finching when I can't imagine it myself!'
-- I'm an old traveller, and all foreign languages and customs are alike to me I never understand anything about any of 'em.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not being a belle or even a fashionable lady, Meg did not experience this affliction till her babies were a year old, for in her little world primitive customs prevailed, and she found herself more admired and beloved than ever.
-- Then he seemed quite inspired, though the burial customs of the ancients, to which the conversation had strayed, might not be considered an exhilarating topic.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fagin was sufficiently well acquainted with the manners and customs of that particular species of humanity to which Nancy belonged, to feel tolerably certain that it would be rather unsafe to prolong any conversation with her, at present.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- who, as to me, were innocent, and whose barbarous customs were their own disaster, being in them a token, indeed, of God's having left them, with the other nations of that part of the world, to such stupidity, and to such inhuman courses, but did not call me to take upon me to be a judge of their actions, much less an executioner of His justice - that whenever He thought fit He would take the cause into His own hands, and by national vengeance punish them as a people for na-tional crimes, but that, in the meantime, it was none of my business - that it was true Friday might justify it, because he was a declared enemy and in a state of war with those very particular people, and it was lawful for him to attack them - but I could not say the same with regard to myself.
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