词义辨析之Custom和Customs

Custom

1、顾客对商店的）惠顾，光顾；生意

lost a lot of custom 失去很多生意

Thank you for your custom 谢谢惠顾

2、 风俗；习俗

local custom 当地风俗习惯

old/ancient custom 旧的╱古老的习俗

Customs

1、海关

customs officer 海关官员

go through customs 通过海关

2、关税；进口税

customs duty/duties 进口税

to pay customs on sth 为某物缴纳关税

参考双语例句：

The Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources will also ensure the involvement of other related Government stakeholders such as the Customs department to assist with the implementation of specific HPMP components.

环境保护和自然资源部还将确保其他相关政府利益攸关方的参与 ，如海关部门， 以协助执行具体的氟氯烃淘汰管理计划内容。

The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could contribute to such differences including difficulties in overcoming the network installation and operational challenges relating to any specific customer or geographical area; factors affecting actual product performance in specific deployments, which could result in lower throughput, range, and other performance criteria than achieved in laboratory tests; factors beyond our control such as weather, geographic, governmental, trade and customs, interference, and other third-party issues; specific requirements of a given customer in their specific situations; new or enhanced products introduced by third parties; and difficulties or delays in supplying products with the features, performance, compliances, certifications, cost, price, and other characteristics desired by customers.

前瞻性声明涉及的可引起差异的风险和不确定因素包括：在解决特定用户或地域的网络安装和运行难题中出现的困难；对特定部署过程中产品实际性能造成影响的因素，可导致吞吐量、频谱范围及其他性能标准比实验室测试结果低；超出公司控制范围的因素，如天气、地域条件、政府因素、贸易和风俗、干扰以及其他第三方问题；特定用户在特定情况下的特殊要求；第三方引入的新型和增强型产品；以及在按客户所需的功能、性能、合规性、认证水平、成本、价格及其他特性提供产品过程中出现的困难或延迟。

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