In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.

换言之，媒介机构新闻采编室文化中存套约定俗成写作模式，为纷繁复杂新闻报道提供了个主干框架和个现成故事叙述结构。

All the same, there is a peculiar fascination about the old order, with its skivvies and tweenies and gentlemen's gentlemen.

但过去关于下等佣人、女仆、贴身男仆约定俗成也同样令人好奇。

But then he goes on to say, and that's the natural right to property. But then, it seems that property, what counts as property is not natural but conventional defined by the government.

但之后又说财产权是自然权利。但然后，意思似乎是，财产权不是与生俱来而是约定俗成，是由政府定义。

In a nutshell, territorial disputes are usually not resolved by treaty laws but customary law which is established state practices and customs.

总之，国际法里，领土纠纷般不通过条约法，而是由习惯法解决, 习惯法是指国家间约定俗成，且共同接收惯例。

Property is natural in one sense but conventional in another.

财产既是自然权利，但也有约定俗成面。

And lots of you caught it on your P's and Q's and E's.

你们很多人注意到了P和Q还有E（学习字母时候p和q容易混淆，这是个约定俗成口诀，主持人加上了e)。

Above all, his conclusions flew in the face of accepted wisdom.

最为要命是，点与约定俗成理论大相径庭。

But wait – where did the subject " Armando" go in the command? We do not include subjects in commands. They are understood without being said.

" 阿曼多" 这个主语祈使句里怎么不见了？这是因为祈使句里不出现主语，这是约定俗成。

There's much more in the social media and a whole range of marketing initiatives which make a very clear prescriptive list of what it's like to be male or what it's like to be female.

社交媒体和系列营销举措中都有很多说辞，它们好似约定俗成般，都非常明确地指向了男性应该是什么样子，或者女性应该是什么样子。

Back in the 1920s, even though red had already become known for stop in traffic lights, the convention in signs wasn't yet established, and there were two major problems with red.

早 20 世纪 20 年代，尽管人们以及熟知红色交通信号灯中已经是 “停 ”意思，但标志中约定俗成还未确立，而且红色还存两大问题。

I said " or not" can come out because it's understood here. Here are your two options.

我说这里不需要 " or not" 因为这是约定俗成，这是两个选择。

The melancholy, but truthful answer comes, that this is the established method of determining justice between nations!

悲哀但确实答案就是，这竟然是国家之间做出公平裁决约定俗成方式！

It's literally pedigree and the fact that most people already say it in casual speech.

这简直是约定俗成，而且大多数人已经非正式对话中这么说了。

This was just a thing, especially African parents.

这似乎是件约定俗成事，尤其是非洲父母，们坚持如此。

And it's now like kind of the deal.

现这差不多就成了个约定俗成事情。

None of this is a matter of convention.

这些都不是约定俗成事情。

By the time the Normans were done tinkering with it, the Middle English spelling system was already a jumble of Germanic, Latin, and French conventions, but two big events in linguistic history were about to make things much, much worse.

当诺曼人完成修补时，中古英语拼写系统已经是日耳曼语、拉丁语和法语约定俗成大杂烩，但语言史上两件大事将使事情变得更糟，更糟。

The American mind was not a thought at all; it was a convention, superficial, narrow, and ignorant; a mere cutting instrument, practical, economical, sharp, and direct.

美国人头脑根本不是个想法； 这是种约定俗成、肤浅、狭隘、无知； 个纯粹切割工具， 实用、经济、锋利、直接。

In this world, it's customary for friends to choose partners for each other as norm, and these societal norms influence personal choices and freedoms.

这个世界上，朋友之间选择伴侣是种约定俗成常态，这些社会规范影响个人选择和自由。

But the basis of a language is not conventional, either from the point of view of the individual or from that of the community.

但是，无论是从个人角度还是从社区角度来看，语言基础都不是约定俗成。