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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
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 may be that in his rogues the writer gratifies instincts deep-rooted in him, which the manners and customs of a civilised world have forced back to the mysterious recesses of the subconscious.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And I give you my word, general, that though I know nothing whatever of manners and customs of society, and how people live and all that, yet I felt quite sure that this visit of mine would end exactly as it has ended now.
-- We may remark here that he seemed anxious not to omit a single one of the recognized customs and traditions ob-served at weddings.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had fallen twice into a wolf trap in his youth, and once he had been beaten and left for dead; so he knew the manners and customs of men.
-- They were always just going to have a leader, and laws and customs of their own, but they never did, because their memories would not hold over from day to day, and so they compro-mised things by making up a saying, 'What the Bandar-log think now the jungle will think later,' and that comforted them a great deal.
-- For three months after that night Mowgli hardly ever left the village gate, he was so busy learning the ways and customs of men.
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：
-- It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen, instead of tell-ing them in their villages, where the lie can be given to the face of a cowardly boaster, and the brave soldier can call on his comrades to witness for the truth of his words.
-- I'm an admirator of names, though the Christian fashions fall far below savage customs in this par-ticular.
-- An Indian never starts on such an expedition without smoking over his council-fire; and, though a man of white blood, I honor their customs in this particular, seeing that they are deliberate and wise.
-- 'All that you say is very true, my friend,' replied Heyward; 'still, our customs must prevent us from doing as you wish.'
-- Cora had been sent to a tribe that temporarily occupied an adjacent valley, though David was far too ignorant of the customs and history of the natives, to be able to declare anything satisfactory con-cerning their name or character.
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