喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold it: room that has been made for someone. Usually that room is literal — a bed, a flat, a hotel booking, somewhere to stay. Sometimes the room is figurative: two sides adjust until both sets of needs fit in the same arrangement.

可以想成替某人挪出來的空間。多數時候這個空間是實際的——一張床、一間公寓、一筆旅館訂房，總之是住的地方。有時候空間是…更多收起可以想成替某人挪出來的空間。多數時候這個空間是實際的——一張床、一間公寓、一筆旅館訂房，總之是住的地方。有時候空間是抽象的：兩方各自讓一點，直到雙方的需求都放得進同一個安排裡。

From the picture

彼此讓出的空間

把「挪出空間」從房子搬到關係上：雙方各自調整，讓兩邊的需要都容得下。

compromise/adjustment · noun · B1

A change that is made so that two different needs, ideas, or groups of people can fit together.

妥協；調整；協調

Also in this word

lodging/housing · noun · B1

A place where someone can live or stay, such as a house, flat, or hotel room.

住宿；住的地方

原始詞典資料14 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。

accommodationnoun/əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/

  • 1

    Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.

    • I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.
    • So, it's settled. I'm going to Penzance. Hooray! I've even booked my accommodation.
  • 2

    Adaptation or adjustment.

    • It is true, the organization of the humane and animal Body, with accommodation to their several functions and offices, is certainly fitted with the most curious and exact Mechanism imaginable
  • 3

    Adaptation or adjustment.

    • ...and Lady Anne, for the present, felt as if Fanchette and her coach full of accommodations, heavy as they might once be supposed to be, were suddenly swallowed up in that awful sea, to which so many refractory spirits have been exorcised and consigned.
    • Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
  • 4

    biologymedicinenatural-sciencesAdaptation or adjustment.

  • 5

    medicinesciencesAdaptation or adjustment.

  • 6

    Adaptation or adjustment.

  • 7

    Adaptation or adjustment.

    • Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A shy newcomer to the village, who is a useful prospect for the cricket team, is invited in. There is a brief moment of awkwardness, while the host finds an empty chair and pours a fresh cup of tea; but the conversation, and village life, soon flow on. The accommodation that was reached between invaders and invaded in the fifth- and sixth-century West was very much more difficult, and more interesting, than this.
  • 8

    Adaptation or adjustment.

    • It is probable to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    businesscommerceAdaptation or adjustment.

  • 10

    businesscommerceAdaptation or adjustment.

  • 11

    lawAdaptation or adjustment.

  • 12

    lifestylereligiontheologyAdaptation or adjustment.

  • 13

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesThe place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.

  • 14

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesModification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

    • Pilots […] use the word fuselage whereas laypeople would more likely call the same "thing" the body of an aircraft. […] We have said above that speakers often signal that they belong to a certain group by making their language more similar to that of the other group members […] we thus adapt our language, dialect, accent, style and/or register to that of our addressee or addressees. This process is called speech accommodation. Among the reasons for accommodation may be our desire to identify more closely with the addressee(s), […]

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。