vt.供給住宿；使適應；容納；提供；顧及；調(diào)解
vi.適應；調(diào)節(jié)
This hotel can accommodate up to 500 guests. 這旅館可供500位來賓住宿。
We must accommodate ourselves to circumstances. 我們必須適應環(huán)境。
One flat can accommodate a family of five. 一套單元房可容納一個五口之家。
The bank is accommodating its customers more than it used to. 這家銀行現(xiàn)在給客戶貸款比以前多了。
The government came up with a new economic proposal that accommodates the special needs and interests of the elderly. 政府出臺了一項新的考慮老年人特殊要求和利益的新經(jīng)濟提案。
He tried to accommodate the dispute between his two friends. 他盡力調(diào)解兩個朋友之間的糾紛。
用作不及物動詞 (vi.)Her eyes took a while to accommodate to the darkness. 過了一會兒，她的眼睛才能適應黑暗。
accommodate的基本意思是“容納”,指容器或建筑物所能容納的事物或人的多少,強調(diào)容納的舒適性,引申可指“向…提供住處〔膳食〕”,也可指“幫助,接濟,施惠于”,還可指“遷就”某人或某事。
accommodate還可作“使適應”解,主要指改變或調(diào)節(jié)自己以適應某人、某事物或新的情況。
accommodate是及物動詞,可接名詞或代詞作賓語,但不接雙賓語。作“提供食宿”“供給”等解時常接with引起的短語,表示供給的東西; 作“使適應”解時常接to引起的短語,表示適應的對象。accommodate可用于被動結(jié)構(gòu)。
