| 单词 | tradition |
| 释义 | tradition (once / 90 pages) n Traditions are longstanding customs and practices. It might be a family tradition to open Christmas presents on Christmas Eve, started because your parents were too impatient to wait. The noun tradition has Latin roots in the word tradere, which means hand over or hand down. So think of a tradition as something that is handed down from one generation to another. Fireworks on the Fourth of July are a national tradition, and playing your school's fight song at the start of the football game is probably a longstanding tradition designed to get the fans excited for the game. WORD FAMILYtradition: traditional, traditions+/nontraditional: nontraditionally/traditional: nontraditional, traditionalism, traditionality, traditionally, untraditional/traditionalism: traditionalist, traditionalistic/traditionalist: traditionalists/untraditional: untraditionally USAGE EXAMPLESIn May Mr. Trump responded by releasing a list of jurists broadly in the Scalia tradition. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) “It’s a business decision that ignores the culinary tradition of Roman cuisine,” he said. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) She said they’ll keep all the traditions created throughout the years alive in Beckley. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a specific practice of long standing Syn|Hypo|Hyper custom habit, wont an established custom Hadith(Islam) a tradition based on reports of the sayings and activities of Muhammad and his companions institutiona custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society leviratethe biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line practice knowledge of how something is usually done 2n an inherited pattern of thought or action Hyper cognitive content, content, mental object the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned |
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