The word "habitual" describes actions, states, or behaviors that are usual or typical for a person, often implying they are characteristic or ingrained.
It can also refer to someone who habitually does something, signifying a repeated or ingrained action, like a "habitual criminal".
[ADJ 形容词]（动作、状态或行为方式）习惯性的，惯常的，典型的 A habitual action, state, or way of behaving is one that someone usually does or has, especially one that is considered to be typical or characteristic of them.
He soon recovered his habitual geniality...
他不久就恢复了自己一贯的和蔼可亲的态度。
If bad posture becomes habitual, you risk long-term effects.
不良姿势一旦定型，日后可就有你受的了。
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His mother had a patient who habitually flew into rages.
他母亲有个老是大发雷霆的病人。
...her habitually prim expression.
她那一向一本正经的表情
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[ADJ 形容词]（人）积习难改的，习以为常的 You use habitual to describe someone who usually or often does a particular thing.
[ADJ n]
She was a habitual daydreamer.
她总是耽于幻想。
...the home secretary's plans for minimum sentences for habitual criminals.
内政大臣关于设置惯犯起刑点的打算
Oxford
ha·bit·ual/həˈbɪtʃuəl; NAmEhəˈbɪtʃuəl/adjective1[only before noun ]usual or typical of sb/sth 惯常的；典型的◆They waited for his habitual response.他们等待着他的一贯反应。◆( formal) a person's place of habitual residence某人通常居住的地方2(of an action 行为)done, often in a way that is annoying or difficult to stop 讨厌的；上瘾的◆habitual complaining没完没了的抱怨◆the habitual use of heroin服用海洛因上瘾3[only before noun ](of a person 人)doing sth that has become a habit and is therefore difficult to stop 习惯性的；积习很深的◆a habitual criminal/drinker/liar, etc.惯犯、嗜酒成性者、习以为常的撒谎者等HELPSome speakers do not pronounce the ‘h’ at the beginning of habitualand use ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ before it. This now sounds old-fashioned. 有人说 habitual 时不发 h 音，前面用 an 而不用 a，现在听起来过时了。▶ha·bit·ual·ly/həˈbɪtʃuəli; NAmEhəˈbɪtʃuəli/adverb◆the dark glasses he habitually wore他惯常戴的墨镜ha·bit·ual/həˈbɪtʃuəl; NAmEhəˈbɪtʃuəl/ha·bit·ual·ly/həˈbɪtʃuəli; NAmEhəˈbɪtʃuəli/
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habitualha‧bit‧u‧al /həˈbɪtʃuəl/ adjective
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1[only before noun] doing something from habit, and unable to stop doing ithabitual criminal/offenderhabitual drinker/smoker/gambler2done as a habit that you cannot stop: His drinking had become habitual.3[only before noun] usual or typical of someone: James took his habitual morning walk around the garden.—habitually adverb: men who are habitually violent
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habitual
[həˈbɪtʃuəl]
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习惯的(62%)，惯常的(38%)
adj.习惯的；惯常的；习以为常的
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