Convention

(noun.) the act of convening.

(noun.) something regarded as a normative example; 'the convention of not naming the main character'; 'violence is the rule not the exception'; 'his formula for impressing visitors'.

(noun.) (diplomacy) an international agreement.

(noun.) a large formal assembly; 'political convention'.

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• The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• 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.
• The National Whig Convention, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President, met at Baltimore on May 1, 1844. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I filled in a paragraph about the convention and how the vote had gone, as I was sure it would. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He induced the Convention to decree that France believed in a Supreme Being, and in that comforting doctrine, the immortality of the soul. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There had been some kind of convention in Virginia, in which John Minor Botts was the leading figure. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• For a month he kept away from the Convention. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The National Convention met on September 21st, 1792, and immediately proclaimed a republic. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Her convention was not their convention, their standards were not her standards. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• One time there was to be a convention of the managers of Edison illuminating companies at Chicago. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• As I write, a convention of the Populist Party has just taken place. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But next day I learned that instead of there being a vote the convention had adjourned without action until the day after. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The miseries it entails are genuine miseries--not points of etiquette or infringements of convention. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It is only within the last few years that the human test has ceased to be the property of a small group and become the convention of a large majority. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• 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.

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