1·I only do it out of habit.
我这么做只是出于习惯。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·He was not in the habit of ogling women.
他没有盯着女人看个没完的习惯。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·He has the irritating habit of biting his nails.
他有咬指甲的讨厌习惯。
—— 《牛津词典》
4·I got in the habit of going around with bare feet.
我养成了打赤脚的习惯。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·They also have the irritating habit of interrupting.
他们也有打断别人这个令人恼火的习惯。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
1·He lamented how Indian captains were made idols and then "thrown in the gutter" by the public; the habit took off with him.
他为印度队长如何成为偶像，然后被公众“扔进排水沟”而悲伤；这个习性拖累了他。
2·In both cases, the associations tended to be superficial and based on habit rather than on meaningful relationships.
在这两种情况下，产生的联想都往往是片面的，基于被试的习性而不是有意义的实际联系。
3·But Lu and Harris suggest that batters could likely be trained out of the habit of letting their peripheral vision fool them.
但吕和哈里斯认为，击打者可能被训练出于不让让他们的周边视觉习性唬弄他们。
4·Though it is obvious which species were predators and which prey, the subtle specialisations of feeding habit that allow many types of carnivore to co-exist are rarely preserved in the fossil record.
尽管哪些物种是捕食者，而哪些物种又是被掠食者显而易见，但是让多种类型的肉食性动物共存的摄食习性的微妙法门却很少在化石记录中保存下来。
5·Be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep, for our habit, and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
选书要和交友一样谨慎，因为我们的习性受书籍的影响程度不亚于朋友。