1、tick off
在…上打鉤
He ticked off my name on a piece of paper.
他在一張紙上我的名字旁打了鉤。
Tick it off in the box.
在方框里打鉤。
怒斥;責罵
His mum ticked him off at home.
他媽媽在家狠狠訓了他一頓。
Abdel felt free to tick him off for smoking too much.
阿卜杜勒動輒責罵他抽煙太兇。
惹惱;激怒
I just think it's rude and it's ticking me off.
我就是覺得這樣太粗魯,叫我很生氣。
She's still ticked off at him for brushing her off and going out with you instead.
他對她不理不睬,反倒和你一塊兒出去,為此她還在生他的氣呢。
2、convention
習俗;慣例;常規
It's just a social convention that men don't wear skirts.
男人不穿裙子只是一種社會習俗。
Despite her wish to defy convention, she had become pregnant and married at 21.
盡管她不想遵循傳統習俗,但她還是在21歲的時候就懷孕并且結婚了。
傳統做法,傳統風格
We go offstage and come back for the convention of the encore.
按照加演的傳統做法,我們走到后臺后又再次返場。
the stylistic conventions of Egyptian art.
埃及藝術的傳統風格
(國家或組織間的)公約,協定,協約
the UN convention on climate change.
聯合國有關氣候變化的公約
the Geneva convention.
日內瓦公約