詞彙精選：accommodate的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
v.
能容納；能提供…膳宿 [T]
例句：
The hotel can accommodate 500 tourists.
這家旅館可住五百名觀光客。
使適應；使相符 [T]
例句：
You have to accommodate your desires to a new standard of living.
你得調整你的慾望，以使其適應新的生活水準。
例句：
I can't accommodate myself to the new requirements.
我不能使自己適應新的要求。
給...提供方便，通融 [T]
例句：
We hope you will accommodate us by allowing 5% commission.
希望你能通融我們5%的佣金。
例句：
The policeman accommodated us when we asked for help.
我們請求警察幫忙，他爽快地答應了。
向...提供 [T]
例句：
The bank will accommodate him with a loan.
銀行將向他提供一筆貸款。
調和；使和解 [T]
例句：
In order to accommodate matters, it was universally agreed that we should have a part of the venison for supper.
爲和解起見，大家一致同意割一塊鹿肉作晚餐。
照顧到，考慮到 [T]
（飛機等）可搭載 [T]
二、詞義辨析：
adapt,adjust,conform,accommodate,suit,fit
這些動詞均有“使適合，適應”之意。adapt指人或物在原有情況下作某些改變以適應新的環境或不同的條件，強調改變的目的和重要性。adjust與adapt含義很接近，但adjust所改變的幅度要小一些，側重過程，主要用於調整角度、高度、光點等。conform多指與某模式或規則相符，也引申指改變習慣等以適應新的環境。accommodate書面用詞，指以外部條件標準改變自己或某事以求得適應，着重改變或調節的有利。 suit指適合要求，從而使人滿意愉快。fit含義廣，指人或物適合或適應某一目的或用途。
三、參考例句：
The new apartments can accommodate 500 students.
新公寓可容納500名學生。【CET-6 2005.12 聽力】
We must accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
我們必須適應環境。
The hotel can accommodate 500 tourists.
這家旅館可容納五百名觀光客。
The hotel can accommodate 500 tourists.
這家旅館可住五百名觀光客。
One flat can accommodate a family offive.
一套單元房可容納一個五口之家。
The hotel can accommodate 600 guests.
這家旅館可供600位來賓住宿。
I will accommodate my plan to yours.
我將使我的計劃適應你的計劃。
The bank will accommodate him with a loan.
銀行將向他提供一筆貸款。
The small cottage could accommodate up to five people.
這間小屋最多能容納5個人。
The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.
新政策充分靈活地適用兩種觀點。
