| 单词 | accustomed |
| 释义 | accustomed (once / 137 pages) adj If you're accustomed to something, you're used to it. Being accustomed has to do with habits and lifestyle. Anything you're accustomed to is a regular thing for you. A rich person is probably accustomed to fancy clothes, expensive food, and beautiful houses. A football player is accustomed to getting tackled and tackling other people. Office workers get accustomed to filling out forms and fixing the copy machine. We can also say an accustomed thing is a usual, customary thing. When you think of the word accustomed, think "nothing new here." WORD FAMILYaccustomed: accustomedly, unaccustomed+/accustom: accustomed, accustoming, accustoms/unaccustomed: unaccustomedly USAGE EXAMPLESIn the past few decades, we’ve grown accustomed to holding corporations responsible for their labor practices and environmental records. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Does that mean your primary objection is no longer to the “chaos, poor behavior and pretty rough playing that the other kids are accustomed to?” Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) That is a tall order for Justice Department lawyers who are more accustomed to hunting down bad characters than to setting up offshore charities. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj commonly used or practiced; usual his accustomed thoroughness Syn customary, habitual, wonted usual occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure 2adj (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to accustomed to doing her own work I've grown accustomed to her face Syn|Ant used to, wont to in the habit unaccustomed not habituated to; unfamiliar with newunfamiliar unusedinfrequently exposed to |
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