- 1vB2
/əˈkʌstəm/
to make yourself or another person become used to a place, rule, or way of doing things.
使習慣;使適應
過去式 accustomed過去分詞 accustomed-ing accustoming三單 accustoms
核心畫面
Picture something that felt strange at first — a cold room, a new schedule — and then picture the strangeness wearing off through repeated contact until you stop noticing it. Accustom is the making of that adjustment happen, usually to yourself.
可以想成:一開始覺得不對勁的東西——冷冷的房間、新的作息——反覆接觸之後,那份不對勁慢慢磨掉了,到最後你根本不會再注…更多收起
可以想成:一開始覺得不對勁的東西——冷冷的房間、新的作息——反覆接觸之後,那份不對勁慢慢磨掉了,到最後你根本不會再注意到它。accustom 就是讓這個適應過程發生,而且受詞多半是自己。原始詞典資料4 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。
accustomverb/əˈkʌs.təm/
- 1
To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure.
- Early exposure to pet allergens and pet-related bacteria accustoms the body to allergens.
- I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
- 2
obsoleteTo be wont.
- all of them accustoming , once in the year , to take their kind of the fresh water
- 3
obsoleteTo cohabit.
- Much better do we Britans fulfill the work of Nature than you Romans; we with the beſt men accuſtom op'nly; you with the baſest commit private adulteries.
accustomnoun/əˈkʌs.təm/
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obsoleteCustom.
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。