0 a belief, principle, or way of acting that people in a particular society or group have continued to follow for a long time, or all of these beliefs, etc. in a particular society or group -- 傳統
According to tradition, a headless ghost walks through the corridors of the house at night. 據傳說，晚上有個無頭鬼走過這幢房子的走廊。
We decided to break with tradition (= not behave as usual) this year and go away for Christmas. 今年我們決定打破傳統，外出度聖誕節。
[ + that ] There's a tradition in our office that when it's somebody's birthday, they bring in a cake for all of us to share. 我們辦公室有個傳統：當有人過生日時，就會帶蛋糕來跟大家一起分享。
Switzerland has a long tradition of neutrality. 保持中立是瑞士長期以來的傳統。
Fireworks have long been an American tradition on the Fourth of July. 七月四日國慶日放煙火是美國人長期以來的傳統。
The profound differences among the religious traditions are due to the different ways in which the transcendent reality is experienced and conceived in human life.
Instead, there may be important traditions of formal oratory and oral story telling, along with ritual and ceremony that have oral components.
The transmission of oral traditions depends on the social continuity of the group that finds meaning in telling those tales.
Finding discrepancies between oral traditions and other sources does not negate the value of oral traditions as historical evidence.
An oral tradition can and will adapt from one generation to the next, repeating its content in a form more readily accessible to the hearers.
It is within this tradition that oral history developed in the late 1960s.
The heuristics-and-biases tradition is most valuable as an answer to questions of whether, and how, we can improve decisions in the real world.
Ultimately, though, corpus-based empiricism must not lose touch with the theoretical linguistic tradition in the study of linguistic change.
