Conventional

(adj.) following accepted customs and proprieties; 'conventional wisdom'; 'she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior'; 'conventional forms of address' .

(adj.) unimaginative and conformist; 'conventional bourgeois lives'; 'conventional attitudes' .

(adj.) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; 'conventional warfare'; 'conventional weapons' .

(adj.) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; 'a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white'; 'the conventional handshake' .

(adj.) conforming with accepted standards; 'a conventional view of the world' .

(adj.) represented in simplified or symbolic form .

校对:伊薇特

• To follow conventional methods, the final chapter of a book should be an In conclusion with a finis and a dismantled torch, but the history of invention will ever be a continued story. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It came to pass, therefore, that Physician's little dinners always presented people in their least conventional lights. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He was so conventional at home, that when he was really away, and on the loose, as now, he enjoyed nothing so much as full outrageousness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• A great outcry has arisen and a number of perfectly conventional men like Lorimer suffer an undeserved humiliation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• His nature was clever and separate, he did not fit at all in the conventional occasion. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• She is not of a disposition to find resources in the conventional gaieties and excitements of London. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He wanted to go back to the dullest conservatism, to the most stupid of conventional people. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In external appearance Mr. Gilmore was the exact opposite of the conventional idea of an old lawyer. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle, for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She was never quite that set--more conventional, in a way. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Nine o'clock was an early hour for a visit, but Selden had passed beyond all such conventional observances. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• In no insignificant number of cases the vote is a cover by which revolutionary demands can be given a conventional front. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This road also had some features of conventional railroads, such as sidings, turn-tables, freight platform, and car-house. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was traced on ruled lines, in the cramped, conventional, copy-book character technically termed small hand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Mary, who was no less conventional, and no more intelligent, yet led a larger life and held more tolerant views. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• If the conventional Cherub could ever grow up and be clothed, he might be photographed as a portrait of Wilfer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The silent drama, however, calls also for many representations which employ conventional acting, staging, and the varied appliances of stagecraft. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• If we act upon this conviction, we shall secure more originality even by the conventional standard than now develops. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Who, taking his stand on the floor before them as chief executioner, would be attended by a conventional volunteer boy as executioner's assistant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• No attempt has been made to conform with strictly scientific terminology, but, for the benefit of the general reader, well-understood conventional expressions, such as flow of current, etc. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Archer checked the conventional phrases of self-accusal that were crowding to his lips. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I am not so conventional as most Englishmen, said Maurice impatiently, and therefore do not act by rule. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Work which remains permeated with the play attitude is art--in quality if not in conventional designation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Every outward sign was to be conventional; but the one great fact would be there to satisfy him--he would see her. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Previous to that time they were dull and conventional in appearance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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