英语单词 | accommodate |
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英美音标 | 英 [ə'kɒmədeɪt] 美 [ə'kɑːmədeɪt] |
中文释义 | vt.供给住宿;使适应;容纳;提供;顾及;调解 vi.适应;调节 |
英语例句 | (1) This hotel can accommodate up to 500 guests. (2) We must accommodate ourselves to circumstances. (3) One flat can accommodate a family of five. (4) The bank is accommodating its customers more than it used to. (5) The government came up with a new economic proposal that accommodates the special needs and interests of the elderly. (6) Her eyes took a while to accommodate to the darkness. |
中文例句 | (1) 这旅馆可供500位来宾住宿。 (2) 我们必须适应环境。 (3) 一套单元房可容纳一个五口之家。 (4) 这家银行现在给客户贷款比以前多了。 (5) 政府出台了一项新的考虑老年人特殊要求和利益的新经济提案。 (6) 过了一会儿,她的眼睛才能适应黑暗。 |
vocabulary简明 | If you accommodate, you are making an adjustment to suit a particular purpose. If you accommodate your brother's demand for the attic room, then you give in and let him take over that space. |
vocabulary扩展 | Accommodate entered English in the mid-16th century from the Latin word accommodat-, meaning "made fitting." Whether it refers to changing something to suit someone's wishes or providing someone with something he needs, accommodate typically involves making something fit. You might change your lunch plans, for example, to accommodate your best friend's schedule. Accommodate can also refer to providing housing or having enough space for something. You might need to open up the extra bedroom to accommodate your out-of-town guests. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词](有足够的空间)容纳,接纳 If a building or space can accommodate someone or something, it has enough room for them. [V n] [no cont]
2 [VERB 动词]为…提供住宿 To accommodate someone means to provide them with a place to live or stay. [V n] [
3 [VERB 动词]顾及;考虑到 If something is planned or changed to accommodate a particular situation, it is planned or changed so that it takes this situation into account. [V n]
4 [VERB 动词]迎合;迁就 If you do something to accommodate someone, you do it with the main purpose of pleasing or satisfying them. [V n]
5 [VERB 动词](调整以)适应 If you accommodate to something new, you change your behaviour or ideas so that you are able to deal with it. [V [V pron-refl [FORMAL 正式]
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