| 单词 | habit |
| 释义 | habit I. 1. archaic a. < costly thy habit as thy purse can buy — Shakespeare > : mode of dress < in the vile habit of a village slave — Alexander Pope > b. 2. a. < monk's habit > b. 3. < marriage by habit and repute > 4. a. < his corpulent habit of body, natural both to the vigor of his type and to a sedentary way of life — Osbert Sitwell > b. obsolete c. obsolete 5. < where he has gone to indulge a contemplative habit — L.J.Halle > < a whole habit of sensibility — F.R.Leavis > 6. a. of a person < contributed letters to the newspapers — a habit that became a lifelong one — B.J.Hendrick > < the local habit of building in perishable materials — Bernard Newman > b. of a thing < black clouds there have a habit of sitting right on the water — Ira Wolfert > < paste has a habit of going hard and lumpy once opened > 7. a. < the daily bowel habit > or increased facility of performance or in a decreased power of resistance < a drug habit > b. < put the keys back in his pocket through force of habit > 8. of an organism < elms have a spreading habit > < a grass ubiquitous in its habit > 9. 10. archaic < he inclines to a sort of disgust … with the system and he has few … habits with any of its professors — Edmund Burke > 11. 12. < was forced to steal to feed his drug habit > Synonyms: < the habit of dawdling on the way to school > < a persistent habit of coughing > < habits of mind > < speech habits > habitude usually suggests habitual or usual state of mind or attitude < you who are so sincere with me are never quite sincere with others. You have contracted this bad habitude from your custom of addressing the people — W.S.Landor > < a confusion of assertions, viewpoints, personal motives and prejudices, and local habitudes can serve only to darken counsel — Yale Review > practice suggests an act, often habitual, repeated with regularity and usually by choice < the team made a practice of leaving their scenarios unfinished until actual production — Current Biography > < promised the people that he would establish democratic practices — Collier's Year Book > < the practice of supplementing poultry and hog feeds with antibiotics — Americana Annual > < the practice of self-examination — Anne Fremantle > usage suggests more a customary action, a practice followed so generally that it has become a social norm < an unwritten constitution comprising ancient British conventions and usage — Americana Annual > < earn a living in a business community without yielding to its usages — W.H.Hamilton > < better versed in diplomatic usage than any of his colleagues — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > custom can apply to habit, practice, or usage that has become public and associated with an individual or group because of its long continuance, its uniformity, and often, its morally compulsive quality < it is the Arabian custom to date, if possible, the birth of sons by unusual events — Current Biography > < in contemporary society it is not a fashion that men wear trousers; it is the custom — Edward Sapir > < the custom — and this is all that it can be properly called — according to which Congress and the President tacitly agree to abide by the interpretation of the Court — M.R.Cohen > use, rare in current speech, signifies a customary act or practice more or less distinctive of an individual or particular group < the polite uses of society > < the religious use and wont of the country people > wont applies to a habitual or customary manner, method, or practice distinguishing an individual or group; it differs from use only in extending to manner < intended to come oftener to church than had been his wont of late — William Black > < this nice balance between sovereignty and liberty is maintained by use and wont — V.L.Parrington > < a people living by wont in a natural atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust, and consumed by fantasies — V.S.Pritchett > Synonym: see in addition physique. II. < the nature of such pedantry to habit itself in a harsh and crabbed style — R.M.Weaver > III. intransitive verb obsolete transitive verb 1. archaic 2. archaic |
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