social convention

常见例句

Guess what? That's not actually a commandment. So let's stop acting like it is, and kill this outmoded social convention.
你猜怎么着？实际上这不是命令。因此，让我们别再被邮件和旧观点奴役，从今而后废除掉这种过时的惯例吧！
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Sometimes I make one up like President or CEO when it’s required for social convention, but the title is meaningless to me.
有时我会像总统或者CEO那样做一张，以在社交会议上需要，但是名片对于我却没有意义。
That's the difference between a matter of morality and one of mere social convention, and Schulman and others believe kids feel it innately.
这便是一个道德问题与一个纯粹的社会公约之间的区别，舒尔曼和其他人相信孩子们会与生俱来地感觉到这些。

What I do know is that questions of intention and identity rather than social convention or etiquette are what lubricated these interactions.
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For another, they know how to poke fun, using their art to critique, if not utterly blow up, social convention and ignorance.
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The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
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