Habit
['hæbɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; 'owls have nocturnal habits'; 'she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair'; 'long use had hardened him to it'.
(noun.) a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order.
(noun.) attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire).
(noun.) an established custom; 'it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening'.
(noun.) the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal); 'a shrub of spreading habit'.
(verb.) put a habit on.
整理:谢尔登--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.
(n.) The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.
(n.) Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior.
(n.) Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit.
(n.) To inhabit.
(n.) To dress; to clothe; to array.
(n.) To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman.
手打:马吉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Condition (of the body), constitution, temperament.[2]. Custom (of an individual), usage, wont, practice, habitude, way, manner, second nature.[3]. Dress, garb, HABILIMENT.
v. a. Dress, clothe, array, attire, accoutre.
弗洛伊德手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Habituation, custom, familiarity, association, inurement, usage, practice, way,manner
ANT:dishabituation, inexperience, inconversance, desuetude,[See HABILIMENTS]
校對:洛丽塔
解釋/意思:
n. ordinary course of conduct: tendency to perform certain actions: general condition or tendency as of the body: practice: custom: outward appearance: dress esp. any official or customary costume: a garment esp. a tight-fitting dress with a skirt worn by ladies on horseback.—v.t. to dress:—pr.p. hab′iting; pa.p. hab′ited.—adj. Hab′ited clothed dressed.—ns. Hab′it-mak′er one who makes women's riding-habits; Hab′it-shirt a thin muslin or lace under-garment worn by women on the neck and shoulders under the dress.—adj. Habit′ūal formed or acquired by frequent use: customary.—adv. Habit′ūally.—v.t. Habit′ūāte to cause to acquire a habit: to accustom.—ns. Habitūā′tion; Hab′itūde tendency from acquiring a habit: usual manner; Habitu (hab-it′ū-ā) a habitual frequenter of any place of entertainment &c.—Habit and repute a phrase in Scotch law to denote something so notorious that it affords strong and generally conclusive evidence of the facts to which it refers; Habit of body the general condition of the body as outwardly apparent: any constitutional tendency or weakness.
柏格編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A shackle for the free.
校對:奥菲莉娅
例句/造句/用法:
- And you would find the habit was broken. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Influenced by his predominant idea, he even fell into a habit of discussing with himself the possibility of her being in some way associated with it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It's not an instinct, it's a habit of cowardliness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A mere habit in me, sir. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The early habit of reading was wanting. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Her old bold life and habit instantly inspired her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Many rich people, whom we poor devils are in the habit of envying, lead contentedly an existence like that above described. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Gerty's compassionate instincts, responding to the swift call of habit, swept aside all her reluctances. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I was not studious in habit, and probably did not make progress enough to compensate for the outlay for board and tuition. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Mr Dorrit was in the habit of receiving this old man as if the old man held of him in vassalage under some feudal tenure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The long habit of rapid transitions made it easy for her to exclaim to the Duchess: Why, I thought you'd gone back to the Princess! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- No wonder that mankind have been in the habit of calling statesmen of this class pedants, sophisters, doctrinaires, visionaries. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- You ain't in the habit of conversing with a deaf person, are you? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- We can clearly discern this in the case of animals with simple habits. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Their habits and their dwellings should correspond to their education. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The new legs last twice as long as the others used to do, and he attributes this solely to his temperate habits (triumphant cheers). 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- A man of plain habits, he had sent his servants to bed and must needs go down to open the door. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Real life is beyond his control and influence because real life is largely agitated by impulses and habits, unconscious needs, faith, hope and desire. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Plasticity or the power to learn from experience means the formation of habits. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Habits as Expressions of Growth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- We speak of fixed habits. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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