In most of us, irked by its conventions and complexities, there stirs the nomad strain. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
This convention is not of the nature of a promise: For even promises themselves, as we shall see afterwards, arise from human conventions. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
No cause can succeed without them: so long as you rely on the efficacy of scientific demonstration and logical proof you can hold your conventions in anybody's back parlor and have room to spare. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
The Edison phonograph industry thus organized is helped by frequent conventions of this large commercial force. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
If nature has given us no such sentiment, there is not, naturally, nor antecedent to human conventions, any such thing as property. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
In like manner are languages gradually established by human conventions without any promise. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
It was the right conventional attitude, and, as far as the world went, he believed in the conventions. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.