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.

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You can also hear Satan's critique of the tyranny of heaven in this account of the rhyme as well. Like kingship, rhyme is a custom.

在这关于押韵的一段话中也可隐约听到,撒旦对上帝独裁的批判，押韵同王权一样都是惯例。

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When he was young, as was the custom, he had tutors.

按风俗，他小的时候，有家庭教师。

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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。

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Even if we locate a source of some kind of genuine strength, authoritative strength, it's still usually possible, as it is for Satan, to argue that that power is really at base just the concealed product of custom or what we would think of as cultural construction.

有时即使我们找到了一种真实的，权威的力量，还是有可能像撒旦所辩解的那样，这种力量其实只是,约定俗成的规矩教条的隐秘产物,或者如我们所想来自文化建构。

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