| 单词 | accommodate |
| 释义 | ac·com·mo·date I. archaic II. transitive verb 1. < words accommodate their meanings to the other words that accompany them — I.A.Richards > : make fit, suitable, or congruous < observations had to be accommodated to these preconceptions — S.F.Mason > 2. < to accommodate the new findings physicists have had to elaborate the theory — Scientific American Reader > : match < accommodating a statement to facts > 3. < he had to accommodate his step to hers — Michael Arlen > < accommodate his religious and cultural life to the culture of the majority while avoiding complete assimilation — F.J.Brown > 4. < Rosamond accommodated him, taking his picture over and over again to please him — Thomas Barbour > a. b. < how are travelers accommodated in villages and towns — Notes & Queries on Anthropology > : make room for < the door was reluctantly opened wide enough to accommodate a small brown wet hand — L.C.Douglas > : hold < the mailbox is huge — obviously designed to accommodate packages from mail-order houses — G.R.Stewart > intransitive verb < normal and neurotic both accommodate to the same situations by different techniques — Abram Kardiner > < try in some way to accommodate — morally, intellectually — to the world — Edmund Wilson > specifically of the eye Synonyms: see adapt, contain, oblige |
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