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When you acclimatize, you slowly get used to a new place, a new kind of weather, or a new way of life — and you can also acclimatize someone else, by giving them time to adjust. After a hot summer, it takes a few days to acclimatize to air-conditioning; after a move, it takes longer to acclimatize to a new school. British English likes this -ize form; American English often prefers acclimate for the same idea. Though actually, it is not instant: the word has climate inside it because it first meant getting used to a new climate, and people later stretched it to any new situation. It is a little more formal than get used to.
適應（新環境／氣候）、使適應
組成From French acclimater (a- + climat + a verb ending), then English -ize. The climate piece is the old core: get used to a new climate. Later people used it for any new place or situation.
同家族的字
- climatethe French climat this was built on
- acclimatizationthe noun for the process
- acclimatethe shorter American form of the same verb
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
acclimatizeverb/əˈklaɪ.məˌtaɪz/
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To get used to a new climate, or to a new situation.
- acclimatize to the new regulations
- She quickly acclimatized to her new job in a foreign country.
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To make used to a new climate or one that is different from that which is natural; to inure or habituate to other circumstances; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate.
- acclimatize the staff to the new regulations
- It takes time to acclimatize oneself to the thin air of high mountains.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。