2019-08-13 accommodate

英英释义：to give what is needed to someone 

“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

sentence

1. Many Europeans believe that accommodating refugees is a moral obligation. 

Many Europeans believe that it is a moral obligation to accommodate refugees. 

2. The new policy fails to accommodate the children of migrant workers. 

3. To accommodate readers with mobility disabilities/impairments, the new library has built two wheelchair ramps. 

4. Better for governments to manage the influx, building roads and schools to accommodate the newcomers. 

5. 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） 

practice

这所学校专门帮助有听觉障碍的学生。 

The school is built for accommodating students with hearing disability.

参考翻译：This school is built to accommodate students with listening disabilities.