custom是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 习俗, 惯例; 光顾，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- our hostess offered to pull off our stockings and trousers, according to the custom of the country, but as we graciously declined to be so honored, she left us to our bed of dry fodder.
-- what do you say, nephew, according to the usual custom of travelers, to name the stream after him?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- in the fulness of time, this correspondence showing signs of wearing out, and seeming to require an effort on the part of the correspondents to which in the hurried circumstances of departure many of them might not be equal, he established the custom of attending collegians of a certain standing, to the gate, and taking leave of them there.
-- here arthur clennam stopped to look about him for the domicile of plornish, plasterer, whose name, according to the custom of londoners, daniel doyce had never seen or heard of to that hour.
-- it was the family custom to lay it down as family law, that she was a plain domestic little creature, without the great and sage experience of the rest.
-- even his custom of bolting his meals may have been a part of an uniform whole; but there is no question, that, as to all other purposes, he kept his mouth as he kept the marshalsea door.
-- from that time it became a frequent custom with pancks the gipsy, as he went home jaded at night, to pass round by bleeding heart yard, go quietly up the stairs, look in at mr baptist's door, and, finding him in his room, to say, 'hallo, old chap!altro!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- meanwhile, upon questioning him in his broken fashion, queequeg gave me to understand that, in his land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy fellows, and lay them round in the piers and alcoves.
-- but this custom has now become obsolete; turn we then to the one proper mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea.
-- i have mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that i may in some sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me.
-- it is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.
-- he called one to him in the grey morning watch, when the day was just breaking, and taking his hand, said that while in nantucket he had chanced to see certain little canoes of dark wood, like the rich war-wood of his native isle; and upon inquiry, he had learned that all whalemen who died in nantucket, were laid in those same dark canoes, and that the fancy of being so laid had much pleased him; for it was not unlike the custom of his own race, who, after embalming a dead warrior, stretched him out in his canoe, and so left him to be floated away to the starry archipelagoes; for not only do they believe that the stars are isles, but that far beyond all visible horizons, their own mild, uncontinented seas, interflow with the blue heavens; and so form the white breakers of the milky way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
-- chapter iv oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life in great families, when an advantageous place cannot be obtained, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, for the young man who is growing up, it is a very general custom to send him to sea.
-- chapter xvii oliver's destiny continuing unpropitious, brings a great man to london to injure his reputation it is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon.
-- it being a cold night, the dodger wore his hat, as, indeed, was often his custom within doors.
-- the doctor seemed expecially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by post, a day or two previous.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had mr. collins not thus addressed her: 'when i do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, i shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though i am far from accus-ing you of cruelty at present, because i know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- yet i entertained such an abhor-rence of the savage wretches that i have been speaking of, and of the wretched, inhuman custom of their devouring and eating one another up, that i continued pensive and sad, and kept close within my own circle for almost two years after this: when i say my own circle, i mean by it my three plantations - viz.
-- as long as i kept my daily tour to the hill, to look out, so long also i kept up the vigour of my design, and my spirits seemed to be all the while in a suitable frame for so out-rageous an execution as the killing twenty or thirty naked savages, for an offence which i had not at all entered into any discussion of in my thoughts, any farther than my pas-sions were at first fired by the horror i conceived at theunnatural custom of the people of that country, who, it seems, had been suffered by providence, in his wise dis-position of the world, to have no other guide than that of their own abominable and vitiated passions; and conse-quently were left, and perhaps had been so for some ages, to act such horrid things, and receive such dreadful customs, as nothing but nature, entirely abandoned by heaven, and actuated by some hellish degeneracy, could have run them into.
-- i jumped up, and regard-less of danger i went, as soon as i could get my clothes on, through my little grove, which, by the way, was by this time grown to be a very thick wood; i say, regardless of danger i went without my arms, which was not my custom to do; but i was surprised when, turning my eyes to the sea, i presently saw a boat at about a league and a half distance, standing in for the shore, with a shoulder-of-mutton sail, as they call it, and the wind blowing pretty fair to bring them in: also i observed, presently, that they did not come from that side which the shore lay on, but from the southernmost end of the island.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- they will drive the really non-religious mind out of bed to say prayers that are only a custom and not a devotion.
-- the victim of habit, when he has neglected the thing which it was his custom to do, feels a little scratching in the brain, a little irritating something which comes of being out of the rut, and imagines it to be the prick of conscience, the still, small voice that is urging him ever to righteousness.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- anyways, it was plenty good enough for me; and wherever i run across it, it can have all of my custom every time.
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