| 词组 | accommodate |
| 释义 | accommodate 1. Copperud 1970, Holt 1976, Phy-thian 1979, and Janis 1984 all warn that this word is often misspelled with one m: accomodate. It certainly is. And it has been so misspelled for some time: • We were accomodated in Henrietta St. —Jane Austen, letter, 25 Sept. 1813 It even sneaks into schoolbooks: • The lens in your eye changes quickly (a doctor would say it accomodates) —You and Science (9th grade text), Paul F. Brandwein et al., 1960 ed. The example of Jane Austen and many hundreds of others (including a few dictionary editors) notwithstanding, you should remember to double that m. The same warning goes for accommodation. 2. Bernstein 1965 says that accommodatecan take either to or with as a preposition. Our files show that when a preposition is used, to predominates. It is used with the intransitive: • ... she accommodated quickly to the traditional bisexuality of the British theatre and the British upper classes —Brendan Gill, Harper's Bazaar, November 1972 • ... presupposed a certain stable element in American life that you learned ... to accommodate to — Edward Grossman, Harper's, February 1970 • ... learn how to live together and to accommodate to each other —Ramsey Clark, Center Mag., July/ August 1970 The transitive verb may take to after a reflexive pronoun or after another direct object: • ... the musician who seems mad to a bourgeois world because he cannot accommodate himself to its demands —Times Literary Supp., 21 May 1970 • ... a secular morality ... that accommodates itself to what man will actually do —Daniel P. Moynihan, American Scholar, Autumn 1969 • A bride, to help take care of such a creature, And accommodate her young life to his—Robert Frost, North of Boston, 1914 • ... he had to accommodate his step to hers — Michael Arlen, These Charming People, 1924 With is much less frequently used, though not rare: • I wish I might accommodate you with a supper of pemmican —Elinor Wylie, The Orphan Angel, 1926 • ... to accommodate them with valuable jobs — James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor, 1948 • ... we were determined to accommodate our basic interests with those of other powers —Dean Ache-son, in The Pattern of Responsibility, ed. McGeorge Bundy, 1951 When the transitive accommodate is used in the passive, it is used with whatever preposition seems most appropriate according to sense. Here, again, to is the most frequent. • It was completely accommodated to their culture — John Kenneth Galbraith, The Scotch, 1964 • ... while the latter is covertly accommodated to events —John Dewey, Freedom and Culture, 1939 • ... then congratulates himself on being accommodated with a machine —Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall, 1816 • ... careers of the "movie brats," each of whom is accommodated by a full chapter —Robert F. Moss, Saturday Rev., 23 June 1979 • ... I looked in the mirror and saw that though my nose was still long and sharp, it was newly accommodated by a softened cheek —Lore Segal, New Yorker, 25 July 1964 • BrummelPs cravat was twelve inches broad, and had to be accommodated between his chin and his shoulders —English Digest, December 1952 • The girl was accommodated at the station for the night —Springfield (Mass.) Union, 22 Aug. 1953 • About seventy of them were accommodated in wards —Nevil Shute, Most Secret, 1945 • It is not easily accommodated among the peculiarities of our constitutional system —Dean Rusk, in Fifty Years of Foreign Affairs, ed. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, 1972 |
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