by convention

基本解释

By convention, filters work on lines of text.
根据惯例，过滤器对文本的行起作用。
The law of majority voting is itself something established by convention, and presupposes unanimity, on one occasion at least.
多数表决规则，本身就是通过约定确立的东西，并且至少有一次得到一致的同意。
Note: It is possible to add attributes to the unit type, but by convention, all custom attributes are placed on capabilities rather than on units.
注意：向单元类型添加属性是可能的，但是按照惯例，所有的通用属性都位于功能而不是单元之中。

Two years later, he became famous by speaking at the Democratic Party's national nominating convention.
No, we call that work positive work. All right, so that means we need to put a negative sign right here, by convention.
历史上有过不同的习惯，这里我们规定,如果环境对系统做功。
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printf That's not actually where someone implemented print F and related functions, rather, in dot H files, by convention, are prototypes.
那实际不是有某人在哪里执行,相关函数，而是在，h文件中，按照惯例，它们是函数原型。
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By convention, most buy-out bosses maintain that they anticipated a recession and acted cautiously.
ECONOMIST: The hollow bullishness of buy-out firms’ bosses