一手一手傳下來的東西
先是那條線上被傳下來的東西本身，然後把那條線當成座標，用來說某個新東西站在它的哪個位置。
long-kept custom · noun · B2
A belief, custom, or way of doing things that people have kept for a long time and pass on to others.
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Picture something being handed from one pair of hands to the next, down a long line of people: how a festival is kept, how a dish is cooked, what a family does every New Year. Nobody in the line invented it and nobody owns it — each one received it and passed it on. Tradition can be thought of as that line itself, still moving, with the thing still being carried along it.
可以想成一樣東西被一雙手交到下一雙手，順著一長排的人一路傳下去：某個節慶怎麼過、某道菜怎麼煮、家裡每年除夕做什麼。這…更多收起
可以想成一樣東西被一雙手交到下一雙手，順著一長排的人一路傳下去：某個節慶怎麼過、某道菜怎麼煮、家裡每年除夕做什麼。這條線上沒有人是發明者，也沒有人是擁有者——每個人都是接過來，再遞出去。tradition 就像是那條線本身，到現在還在動，上面那樣東西也還在被一手一手帶著走。One branch
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
traditionnoun/tɹəˈdɪʃ.ən/
- 1
A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
- After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death.
- Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged.
- 2
A commonly held system.
- They followed the tradition of lighting candles for special occasions.
- 3
An established or distinctive style or method
- Following tradition, the victorious athlete runs a lap around the track.
- 4
The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
- A deed takes effect only from this tradition or delivery; for, if the date be false or impossible, the delivery ascertains the time of it.
- 5
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe entirety of a text's transmission; all the versions of a work.
- It is, for example, apparent, in light of further research and when considering more manuscripts, that the manuscript tradition of the Life of Kiros (a very widespread hagiographical text) is much more complex than he had thought (Marrassini 2004; see Krzyżanowska 2015).
traditionverb/tɹəˈdɪʃ.ən/
- 1
obsoleteTo transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
- The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。