自现象级英语
ACCOMMODATE
1. 英英释义：to give what is needed to someone
例句：Many Europeans believe that accommodating refugees is a moral obligation.
2. 为什么选这个词？
“accommodate”是及物动词，最基本的意思是“为......提供住宿、容纳”，稍微延伸一下，它还有“帮助、为…提供方便、对…予以照顾性考虑”的意思。做这个意思来讲，它可以替换 help, assist, allow for 等词，在《经济学人》中经常可以看到，在口语和写作中使用这个词可以实现表达的多样化。下面我们来看一些例子。
很多欧洲民众觉得对接纳难民是一种道德义务，就可以说：
Many Europeans believe that accommodating refugees is a moral obligation.
或：
Many Europeans believe that it is a moral obligation to accommodate refugees.
这项政策没有照顾到农民工子女的利益，可以说：
The new policy fails to accommodate the children of migrant workers.
这座新的图书馆为了照顾行动不便的读者，专门修建了两个轮椅坡道，可以说：
To accommodate readers with mobility disabilities/impairments, the new library has built two wheelchair ramps.
最近《经济学人》一篇关于全球变暖的文章中讨论到了，在环境恶化最严重的地方政府应该竭尽全力帮助民众，其中就用到了 accommodate:
Better for governments to manage the influx, building roads and schools to accommodate the newcomers.
两年前《经济学人》在一篇讨论类似话题的文章中也用到了 accommodate 同样的用法：
What to do? One answer is to help people move. Thriving places could do more to build the housing and infrastructure to accommodate newcomers.（有没有注意到？第三句话中的 accommodate 呼应第二句话中的 help）
《经济学人》在一篇书评中也用到了 accommodate:
On the independence of the American colonies, religious variety underpinned the separation of church and state. For its part, commerce-minded Venice ignored the injunctions of Catholic preachers and accommodated Jewish traders, as well as Muslims, when not fighting the Ottomans.（根据语境，这里的 accommodate 有 welcome, accept 的意思）
3. 怎样学会使用这个词？
1）翻译下面的句子： 这所学校专门帮助有听觉障碍的学生。 (专门 be built to do, 听觉障碍 listening disabilities)
This school is built to accommodate students with listening/hearing disabilities/impairments.
造句
例1：The research institution is built to accommodate educators with key performance indicators, such as learning curve for schoolchildren. 仿写翻译句
例2：Alipay, the payment arm of Alibaba, has spawned new modules to accommodate all manner of clients. 开发新模块
例3：Most of us have been brought up to eat certain foods and we stick to them all our lives. Understandably, we are reluctant to accommodate ourselves to a foreign cuisine. 饮食习惯的积习难改
个人拓展
accommodate sb with sth
accommodate oneself to sth
accommodate the needs of someone
accommodate sb who+ clause
背诵
accommodate, help, assist, allow for
Many Europeans believe that accommodating refugees is a moral obligation.
This school is built to accommodate students with listening/hearing disabilities/impairments.
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