accustom

1 They were accustomed to having all the clues neatly laid out on a diagram placed in front of the exhibit.

2 My father was not accustomed to being helpless.

3 “Her motions were taut and full of panic. Her breathing was pinched, almost panting. The boy was the opposite. His movement was smooth and lithe, like he was accustomed to moving silently.”

4 Readers accustomed to uncalibrated dates will need to bear this distinction in mind whenever they find me quoting apparently erroneous dates that are older than the ones with which they are familiar.

5 During those years, she grew accustomed to sudden starts and protracted waits.

6 By now I was accustomed to all sorts of workers coming to visit us in our various foster homes.

7 Ben was accustomed to silence when enclosed by windows and blackboards.

8 They were accustomed to listening to him tell stories, though that usually happened after dinner, when the sky was dark and he could only see their faces by the flickering light of the fire.

9 He grew accustomed to the uneasy octopus that lived inside him and squirted its inky tranquilizer on his past.

10 But we were all dizzy and silent by that time, having grown accustomed to taking up no more space in a seat than was our honest due.

11 Sammy said Art had been called that since first grade so he had had plenty of time to grow accustomed to his nickname.

12 These were specially favoured by millers, smiths, ropers, and cartwrights, and others of that sort; for even when they had holes to live in, Hobbits had long been accustomed to build sheds and workshops.

13 As far back as her memory went, she had been accustomed, each day as a matter of routine, to placing offerings of food and drink at the larium.

14 Those who had always won, accustomed to being in power since time immemorial even though their strength had greatly waned in recent years, spent the weeks before the elections preparing for their triumph.

15 He and his fellow Chromatic employees became accustomed to receiving calls from Lawrence at dinnertime with the message, “I’ve got a new idea—let’s stop what we’ve been doing and look at it tonight.”

16 “Sorrow is dangerous. Or, at least, it was. I can’t remember why, now. I think we both became accustomed to not remembering things. We just let things get...foggy.”

17 This host her son had assembled was not a standing army such as the Free Cities were accustomed to maintain, nor a force of guardsmen paid in coin.

18 We rarely even ate rice, but when we did, I'd grown accustomed to using a fork, the same way he did, even though the utensil never made sense to me in that context.

19 To people accustomed to thinking of maize in terms of dark or light yellow kernels of corn on the cob, the variety in Mexican maize is startling.

20 The students, accustomed to this routine, begin talking among themselves.

1 适应

accommodation adaptation conformation frame accommodate fulfil season fit SHAPE suit gear adjust adapt conform acclimatize

2 使习惯于

season condition teach wont inure habituate indurate

3 习惯

standard used usual automatic chronic conventional accepted wont customary confirmed inveterate wonted practice custom institution trick habit groove habitude use condition harden do's and don't accustomed rule tradition usage knack praxis -ful regular given habitual consuetudinary way mode manner rite observance habitus shibboleth usance consuetude season frequent assuetude law attunement habituation manners convenance acclimatise train habituate get the feel of get used to

4 使习惯

attune harden use season train habituate

5 习惯于

habituate get a feel for season condition teach wont inure indurate get the feel of

6 使适应

frame accommodate season fit suit gear adjust adapt acclimatize