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单词 long-standing convention
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long-standing convention

collocation in English

meaningsoflong-standingandconvention

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long-standing
adjective
uk
/ˌlɒŋˈstæn.dɪŋ/us
/ˌlɑːŋˈstæn.dɪŋ/
having existed for a ...
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convention
noun
uk
/kənˈven.ʃən/us
/kənˈven.ʃən/
a large formal meeting of people who do a particular job or have a similar interest, or a large meeting for a ...
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(Definition oflong-standingandconventionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflong-standing convention

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In accordance withlong-standingconvention, the substance of the correspondence on this matter is confidential.
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However, bylong-standingconvention, governments restrict themselves to essential business during this period.
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Generally, and in accordance withlong-standingconvention, these plans are not made public.
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This is along-standingconventionof working-class literature, where the real threat to the peace of the community comes from the unrestrained upper ranks, not an unruly working class.
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It has been along-standingconventionthat neither the fact nor the content of advice should be disclosed.
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I see no reason to depart from thatlong-standingconvention.
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However, bylong-standingconvention, governments restrict themselves to essential business during this period.
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In accordance withlong-standingconvention, the substance of the correspondence on this matter is confidential.
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It is breaking along-standingconventionthat has been upheld by successive political groups for many years.
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Generally, and in accordance withlong-standingconvention, these plans are not made public.
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We have along-standingconventionthat we do not reflect adversely on the courts or the judiciary.
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First, to do so would breach along-standingconventionthat public sector pensions should not be enhanced retrospectively.
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There is along-standingconventionof not announcing the detailed figures which subscribe to the overall cost of the defence nuclear programme.
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Employers' forces are able to wear these uniforms bylong-standingconventionbut it is not clear by what legal provision.
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This is along-standingconventionwith certain host nations and invariably reflects host nations' religious or other laws about marriage.
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Nevertheless, we have had along-standingconventionat all levels that, if people change their allegiance once elected by electorates, they do not automatically have to resign.
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That is along-standingconvention.
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Long-standing conventions governed associations between instrument types and particular settings: trumpets and drums evoked warfare, flutes divinities, oboes the pastoral.
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Historically however, terms have ended before their expiry and the sitting government has typically dissolved parliament within four years of an election according to along-standingconvention.
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Our present arrangements rest on the assumption that local authorities will have regard to long-standing conventions relating to national spending and other policies.
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narrative conventions

collocation in English

meaningsofnarrativeandconvention

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narrative
adjective
uk
/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
telling a story or describing a series ...
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convention
noun
uk
/kənˈven.ʃən/us
/kənˈven.ʃən/
a large formal meeting of people who do a particular job or have a similar interest, or a large meeting for a ...
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(Definition ofnarrativeandconventionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnarrative conventions

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In effect, the work exploits a wide range of narrative conventions, although these do not combine to produce anything even faintly resembling a linear narrative.
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Through the narrative conventions of describing the past, children come to organize past experiences in more temporally extended and integrated ways.
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Does the ' 'ideal' ' narrator -uent in two languages exchange not just one linguistic system for another, but also the culturally determined narrative conventions associated with each language?
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Ahtila explores questions of identity and group relations through her use of narrative conventions derived from film, television and advertising.
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The stories escape reality and often narrative conventions (one of the stories may be narrated by a dead character).
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Her early films do not follow narrative conventions, instead combining reality and fiction, sound and visuals, to address social and political issues.
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The fact that the star died early in the movie violated narrative conventions of the time.
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Film makers typically choose from a predictable range of narrative conventions and use stereotyped characters, and clichd symbols and metaphors.
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Thai soap operas have very distinctive, though formulaic, characters and narrative conventions.
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Surrealist film also describes the fantastic, but it dispenses with genre narrative conventions and is usually thought of as a separate category.
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Ianto's death led several fans to accuse the show's creators of subscribing to homophobic narrative conventions.
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However, the film's defenders contrast this approach with more conventional anti-war films, which often paradoxically adopt the same visual language and narrative conventions as heroic war films.
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