Accommodating
[ə'kɒmədeɪtɪŋ] or [ə'kɑmədetɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; 'the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in'; 'made a special effort to be accommodating' .
(adj.) obliging; willing to do favors; 'made a special effort to be accommodating' .
阿蒂整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accommodate
(a.) Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
爱德华整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Kind, unselfish, obliging, polite, yielding, conciliatory
ANT:Disobliging, selfish, churlish, rude, imperious, dictatorial, exacting,inconsiderate, unaccommodating
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例句/造句/用法:
- Mr. Whiffers then added that he feared a portion of this outrage might be traced to his own forbearing and accommodating disposition. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He was a cheery, accommodating rascal. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The practice is quiet, said I, and I have an accommodating neighbor. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- She walked along at his side, and, gently accommodating himself to her humour, he said Coketown was a busy place, was it not? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Your manner of accommodating the accounts to your hypothesis of descending spouts is, I own, in ingenious, and perhaps that hypothesis may be true. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But this is not a reason for nominally accepting one educational philosophy and accommodating ourselves in practice to another. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- His manners were easy and accommodating, and his address winning and respectful. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It would be hard to say which of us, under the circumstances, felt the most grateful sense of obligation to Mr. Fairlie's accommodating nerves. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I mention this because I can not help admiring his patience, his industry, and his accommodating spirit. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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