in the habit of

• They were in the habit of turning out by torchlight, two or three nights in the week, for unlawful purposes .
  他们每星期总得有两三个晚上，点着火把出去为非作歹。
• As a matter of fact, grandet, who slept little, was in the habit of spending half the night considering and reflecting .
  的确，不大需要睡眠的葛朗台，夜里大半时间都在打种种盘算。
• I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hearing the very best performers .
  宾客们都是听惯了第一流演奏家的，我实在不好意思在他们面前坐下来献丑。
• Don't tell me that that handsome child has been in the habit of prowling about as she's done these last two or three days .
  不要对我说那个漂亮的孩子一向是东奔西跑，象最近两三天的样子。
• A season ticketholder for the professional football season in 1976 was probably in the habit of watching football games .
  一个持有1976年职业足球赛长期票的人很可能是一个热衷于观看足球赛的观众。
• We're in the habit of despising foreigners; the scorn we have for them is nothing to the scorn they have for us .
  我们有一种轻视外国人的习惯；其实我们对他们的轻视比他们对我们的轻视，真是微不足道的。
• The hire of a cart at any time, might not be so easy as you suppose; our farmers are not in the habit of letting them out .
  不论什么时候，雇马车都不象你想的那么容易。我们的农民没有把马车雇出去的习惯。
• Tom loker was soon carefully deposited in a much cleaner and softer bed than he had ever been in the habit of occupying .
  汤姆洛克随即被安置在一张又干净、又舒适的床上，他一辈子也没有睡过这样舒适的床。
• Shelton paused in the assimilation of asparagus; he, too, had been in the habit of admiring jellaby, but now he wondered, why ?
  谢尔顿在消化芦笋的过程中停顿了一下；他一向也有钦慕杰莱贝的习惯，但现在他奇怪了，为什么要钦慕？
• Bert's regard for owen was equalled in intensity by his dislike of crass, who was in the habit of jeering at the boy's aspirations .
  伯特对欧文的尊敬之深和他对克拉斯的厌恶之甚在程度上可以说不相上下。克拉斯常常讥笑这孩子的野心。