And they brought the Saint and the custom of giving gifts into their own celebration at Christmas time.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

You obeyed Israelite law and custom, you revered Israelite lore, you entered into the historical community of Israel by accepting that their fate and yours should be the same.

遵守他们的法规和习俗，崇敬他们的经验知识，你通过接受他们与你,命运相同而进入了有历史意义的以色列人群体。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The kinds of authority established by the bogeys of tradition and custom and conservative tradition are not always distinguishable from the kinds of authority that are based on genuine strength.

由约定俗成的习俗的幻象以及,保守的传统建立的权威,和建立在真实力量上权威难以分辨。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Long after the fall of the ancient Egyptian civilization, doctors and alchemists in Europe continued the custom of showing a sign of the gods' help and protection.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Well, Alexander just followed a custom that had been taught by philosophy and other kinds of things that, "Oh well, they worship Isis."

于是亚历山大,根据哲学及经验判断，“原来他们崇拜艾西斯“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

For example, Hooks' parents always insisted that whites address them as Mr.and Mrs.Hooks, rather than by their first names, as was the custom when whites spoke to blacks.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Interpret those neural signals with mathematic algorithms as one on custom-designed chips those of you who are very familiar with this technology, that fuels and all other things running here today.

通过运算法则去解释这些神经信号,就像大家都很熟悉的,定制的芯片上那样，燃料等现在大家用到的东西。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选