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单词 to get used to
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to get used to
c. transitive (in passive). With to. Also (Scottish) with with. Frequently in to get used to.
(a) To be familiar or comfortable with something; to have come to accept a particular state of affairs.
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a1794 E. Gibbon Crit. Observ. 6th Bk. Æneid in Misc. Wks. (1796) II. 520 Those who are used to the laboured happiness of all Horace's expressions will readily allow [etc.].
1799 T. R. Malthus Diary 12 June (1966) 60 The Norwegians who are used to the flad brod made of oatmeal always find the rye bread disagree with them.
1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 405 ‘At first,’ said he, ‘they seemed to confine my limbs; then I got used to them; and as they are a defence against the heat and the cold, I now like them.’
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xvi. 314 The like o' them's used wi' graves and ghaists.
1832 B. Disraeli Contarini Fleming IV. vi. vi. 179 The friar smiled, and was evidently used to this raillery.
1839 T. Hook Gurney Married ii. 155 I suppose we shall both mend as we get use to it.
1864 A. B. Longstreet Master William Mitten 122 His new clothes ‘scratched him mightily at first, but he had got use to them,’ as he wrote to his mother.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. viii. lxxiv. 211 She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life.
1920 D. Lindsay Voy. Arcturus i. 2 He was used to such receptions at the hands of the sex.
1954 Bulletin (Glasgow) 12 Feb. 7 I heard no complaints about noise at all. ‘Ye get used wi' it,’ they said.
1975 B. Dylan If you see her, say Hello in Lyrics 1962–85 (1985) 369 I've never gotten used to it, I've just learned to turn it off.
1992 Playboy Dec. 223/3 She's used to it. Even in the beginning she was never jealous.
1993 Pop. Mech. Aug. 6/3 As a female reader, I've gotten use to the ‘babes’ in the boats with very little clothing on.
2006 Ace Tennis Oct. 38/4 They had time..to get their eye in and get used to the courts, balls and surroundings.
(b) With a gerund. To have come to expect a particular course of events to unfold; to have grown familiar with a given action, procedure, or situation. Cf. sense 20a(c).Active reflexive examples with the gerund are occasionally found in the 19th cent.: see quot. 1850 at sense 20a(b).
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person) > adapt to circumstances > become accustomed to
use1807
to shake down into1861
1807 Parl. Reg. (1st Session 3rd Parl.) II. 25 The general principle of the honourable gentleman was, that because Hampshire was used to being wronged, its wrongs should never be redressed.
1841 C. M. Sawyer Merchant's Widow ii. 44 I am used to having everything my own way.
1869 Sci. Amer. 18 Sept. 182/2 It requires a little practice to get used to working the bow.
1875 H. James Roderick Hudson ii. 48 No one..was used to offering hollow welcomes or telling polite fibs.
1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods ii. x. 112 Less used wi' guidin' horse-shoe airn Than steerin' crowdie.
1922 T. E. Lawrence Let. 1 Sept. (1938) 365 I'll have got used to being a dog's body.
1938 A. Berkeley Not to be Taken iv. 84 I am not used to bandying words with maids.
1962 D. St. Clair tr. C. M. de Jesus Child of Dark 151 I told him that I'd never get use to riding in a caravan.
1997 R. Elliot Painless Grammar 175 We are so use to seeing and hearing certain words and phrases misused that we often don't even notice them when we proofread.
1999 in D. Bolger Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel 76 She was well used to entertaining herself.
2007 Ecologist July 72/1 In our throwaway culture we've got used to binning things when they're broken or unwanted.
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