某人一貫的樣子
重複久了就成了「他向來如此」：這裡沒有停不下來的意思，只是說這是他平常的做法。
typical of someone · adjective · B1
usual or typical of a particular person; the way they normally do something.
慣常的
核心畫面
One way to hold it: something done so many times that it now runs by itself. Nobody decides to do it any more — the hand reaches for the phone, the feet take the same seat. English then points that word either at the action, at the person who keeps doing it, or at whatever is simply their usual way.
可以想成一件事做太多次，現在自己會跑了：不必再決定，手就伸向手機、腳就走到同一個位子。habitual 就是把這個「…更多收起
可以想成一件事做太多次，現在自己會跑了：不必再決定，手就伸向手機、腳就走到同一個位子。habitual 就是把這個「已經自動化」貼在不同的東西上——貼在動作上、貼在一直做這件事的人身上，或貼在某人一貫的樣子上。（留意這三個分項其實靠得很近，差別主要在形容的對象。）From the picture
Also in this word
become a habit · adjective · B2
done so often that it has become a habit you cannot easily stop.
已成習慣的
compulsive habit · adjective · B2
doing something again and again from habit, and finding it hard to stop.
積習的
原始詞典資料6 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。
habitualadj/həˈbɪ.tʃʊ.əl/
- 1
Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
- Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.
- Thomas Aquinas attributeth preparation vnto free-vvill, but not conuerſion. Now this preparation hee thus coloureth, that it is indeed a furtherance to the habituall grace of cõuersion, but yet through the free aſsiſtance of God mouing vs inwardly.
- 2
Regular or usual.
- Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table.
- Our hearts are ſaid to be purified by faith; Acts 15. 9. not our lives onely in the acts of holineſſe and purity, but our heart in the habituall frame of them.
- 3
Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
- He’s a habitual chain-smoker.
- [N]o drunkard (i.e.) no Habituall, Impenitent drunkard, ſhall come into Gods Kingdome.
- 4
grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsPertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
- In English, for instance, the Habitual Aspect (used to construction) can combine freely with Progressive Aspect, to give such forms as used to be playing.
- The majority of South Arawak, Pareci-Xingu, and Peruvian Arawak languages have a three-fold aspect distinction: completive (completed, perfective or telic action); progressive (action/state in progress; also a durative meaning); and habitual.
habitualnoun/həˈbɪ.tʃʊ.əl/
- 1
One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.
- It has been suggested that we should classify prisoners as casuals and habituals. If a casual is to be distinguished from an habitual simply by the length of his sentence, this classification would hardly answer.
- However, in an era when legal punishment was dominated by principles of classical justice and Victorian political economy, what else could one do with the habituals other than provide for an accumulation of prison sentences: the more repeated one's crime, the longer one might be sentenced to imprisonment.
- 2
grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA construction representing something done habitually.
- Since any situation that can be protracted sufficiently in time, or that can be iterated a sufficient number of times over a long enough period – and this means, in effect, almost any situation – can be expressed as a habitual, it follows that habituality is in principle combinable with various other aspectual values, namely those appropriate to the kind of situation that is prolonged or iterated.
- Indeed, [Thomas] Givón (1994: 323) suggests the habitual is a 'hybrid modality', sharing some features of realis (higher assertive certainty) and some of irrealis ('lack of specific temporal reference; lack of specific evidence; …').
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。