By convention, America appoints the first managing director.

按照惯例，美国任命第一总裁。

By convention the IMF is led by whichever European candidate the Americans can live with.

按照惯例，IMF由美国人能够容忍的任何一位欧洲候选人领导。

The sister chromatids by convention are now called sister chromosomes as they move toward opposing poles.

按照惯例，姐妹染色单体现在被称为姐妹染色体，因为它们朝向相反的两极移动。

The slightly kinder reading is that the dowager empress was hamstrung by convention unable to pick anyone older.

稍微温和一点的解读是，皇太后被传统束缚，无法挑选年龄更大的人。

This ruling has put women at a disadvantage too: by convention they are less often named on deeds.

依照规约而言，她们在家庭里的苦劳、功劳不再像以前那么被看重。

Despite this, the other delegates headed by convention, president George Washington hammered out a brand new United States Constitution .

尽管如此，以大会为代表的其他代表，乔治·华盛顿总统还是敲定了一部全新的美国宪法。

By convention, the small intestine is divided into three sections.

按照惯例，小肠分为三个部分。

And by convention they are written as if the substance is being reduced, not oxidized.

按照惯例，它们被写成好像物质正在被还原， 而不是被氧化。

By convention, the bride’s father gives her away at her wedding.

【convention】按照惯例，新娘的父亲在婚礼上把她交给新郎。

By convention we'll typically put custom functions at the bottom of the file.

按照惯例，我们通常将自定义函数放在文件的底部。

But the final text drafted in September still had to be approved by conventions held in the states.

但 9 月份起草的最终文本仍需得到在各州举行的会议的批准。

In Lost in the Zoo, a short story, she likens unhappy families to caged animals trapped by convention.

在短篇小说《迷失动物园》中，她将不幸的家庭比作被习俗困在笼子里的动物。

In connection with the uprising against machine politics, came a call for the abolition of the old method of nominating candidates by conventions.

——在反对机器政治的起义中，呼吁废除通过大会提名候选人的旧方法。

Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it very properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending.

死亡终结了一切， 故事的全面结局也是如此， 但婚姻也恰如其分地结束了它， 老练的人不应该嘲笑通常被称为幸福结局的东西。