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To habituate is to get used to something by meeting it again and again, until it feels normal, or until your body stops jumping every time. You can habituate yourself to early mornings; a village can become habituated to the sound of trains. Psychologists use a colder cousin, habituation: a noise that scared you on day one barely registers on day ten. There is a medical stretch too, a little darker — a patient habituated to a drug, meaning the body now expects it — but that is clinic English, not café English. The verb itself is formal. In ordinary talk, people just say get used to. Older writing also used it for “be in the habit of,” which is why it sits so close to habit and to French habitué.
使習慣於；逐漸習慣
組成From Middle English habituat(e), from Late Latin habituātus, the past form of habituō, “to bring into a habit of body,” plus English -ate, which turns that into a verb.
同家族的字
- habitboth from the Latin habit- family: a settled way of being
- habitualdone as a habit, same family
- habituéFrench cousin: someone in the habit of going to a place
- habituationthe process of becoming used to something
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。
habituateverb/həˈbɪtju.eɪt/
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To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
- 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311, […] it was the custome of our English doggs (who were habituated vnto a colder clyme) to runne into the sea in the heate of summer […]
- [B]y often praying in ſuch manner and in all circumſtances, vve ſhall habituate our ſouls to prayer, by making it the buſineſs of many leſſer portions of our time: and by thruſting in betvveen all our other imployments, it vvill make every thing reliſh of Religion, and by degrees turn all into its nature.
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obsoleteTo settle as an inhabitant.
- After the Conquests made by Caesar upon Gaul, and the nearer Parts of Germany […] great Numbers of Germans and Gauls resorted to the Roman Armies and to the City it self, and habituated themselves there, as many Spaniards, Syrians, Graecians had done before upon the Conquest of those Countries.
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。