institution

• Drinking tea at 4 p.m. . is a popular british institution .
  下午4点钟吃茶点是流行英国风俗。
• The constitutive institution may provide for these matters .
  组织文件可对这些事项作出规定。
• My uncle has become quite an institution at the club !
  我叔叔在俱乐部里已是颇有名气的人物了。
• This may strike a modern reader as an envious institution .
  现代的读者可能对此视为是个值得羡慕的制度。
• The institution is supposed to symbolize the "idea of duration" in law .
  制度应代表法律中的"持久观念"。
• Gentleman must adjust himself and his institutions to this word .
  绅士必须使自己和自己的作风适应这个世界。
• Japan's economic resurgence was based on a unique set of institutions .
  日本经济复兴有一套独特的制度作为基础。
• "human nature" varies considerably with the social institutions .
  “人性”在很大程度上因社会习俗的不同而不同。
• Emerson sighed in vain for the friendly institution of the cafe in boston .
  爱默生徒想眷恋着波士顿咖啡馆的友好气氛。
• I'm comparing only your ignorance and mine about penal institutions .
  我只是拿你我两人对刑法机构的无知作个比较罢了。