The country's passion for gold is rooted in culture and custom.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

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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So this is a myth in the sense that it's explaining some custom or ritual among the people.

这有点神话色彩,它解释了人类中间的一些习俗和仪式。

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"The power source for the aircraft are the two battery packs you see on either side, which are lithium ion batteries which are similar to what you find in our laptops, only custom made for us for this application."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Both had participated in what David Donald used to call the great American practice or custom, tradition actually he called it, of compromise.

他们都参与了,大卫·唐纳德曾经称为,那场伟大的美国实践或美国习俗,实际上他称之为传统,和解的传统

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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。

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