| 单词 | creature of habit |
| 释义 | > as lemmascreature of habit creature of habit: a person whose behaviour is guided by habit; a person who or animal which tends to follow an unvarying routine.In quot. 1741: an impulse arising from habit. ΚΠ 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. 560 The dictates of our unruly passions, being..the creatures of habit, not of nature. 1756 F. Greville & F. Greville Maxims, Characters, & Refl. 250 Is a man a creature of habit, or change? 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son liii. 529 If we were not such creatures of habit as we are, we shouldn't have reason to be astonished half so often. 1892 W. S. Gilbert Mountebanks ii. 45 I'm such a creature of habit that I find it difficult to remember that I am no longer a rantipole. 1922 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 18 471 Man, being a creature of habit, dislikes to have his routine changed. 1973 A. J. P. Taylor Let. 1 Feb. in Lett. to Eva (1991) 113 I am a creature of habit and must write once a fortnight for my own sake as well as yours. 2000 Petcare Jan.–Feb. 4/3 Simply move the litter tray to your rabbit's chosen spot—rabbits are creatures of habit and always go in the same place. 2004 D. Cosper Wedding Season i. 3 Which is not to say that I'm not a creature of habit... I am a walking antonym for spontaneity. < as lemmas |
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