accommodate
基础篇： meaning: to give what is needed to someone
Many Europeans believe that accommodating refugees is a moral obligation.
进阶篇：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。作为这个意思来讲，它可以替换 assist, help, allow for等词，在《经济学人》中经常可以看到。
很多欧洲民众觉得对接纳难民是一种道德义务。
Many Europeans believe that accommodating refugees is a moral obligation.
或者：
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。
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，专门修剪了两个轮椅坡道。
To accommodate readers with mobility disabilities/impairments, the new library has built two wheelchair ramps.
最近《经济学人》一篇关于全球边拿的文章中讨论到了，在环境恶化最严重的地方政府应该竭力帮助民众：
Better for governments to manage the influx, building roads and schools to accommodate the newcomers.
What to do? One answer is to help people move. Thriving places could do more to build the housing and infrastructure to accommodate newcomers.
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. (accommodate 有 welcome, accept 的意思)
应用篇：
1）翻译：这所学校专门帮助有听觉障碍的学生。
This school is built to accommodate students with listening disabilities.
2) 造句：这个奖学金是帮助低收入家庭的学生完成大学学业的。
The scholarship is to accommodate students from low-income families to finish college.
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