vt.供给住宿；使适应；容纳；提供；顾及；调解
vi.适应；调节
This hotel can accommodate up to 500 guests. 这旅馆可供500位来宾住宿。
We must accommodate ourselves to circumstances. 我们必须适应环境。
One flat can accommodate a family of five. 一套单元房可容纳一个五口之家。
The bank is accommodating its customers more than it used to. 这家银行现在给客户贷款比以前多了。
The government came up with a new economic proposal that accommodates the special needs and interests of the elderly. 政府出台了一项新的考虑老年人特殊要求和利益的新经济提案。
He tried to accommodate the dispute between his two friends. 他尽力调解两个朋友之间的纠纷。
用作不及物动词 (vi.)Her eyes took a while to accommodate to the darkness. 过了一会儿，她的眼睛才能适应黑暗。
accommodate的基本意思是“容纳”,指容器或建筑物所能容纳的事物或人的多少,强调容纳的舒适性,引申可指“向…提供住处〔膳食〕”,也可指“帮助,接济,施惠于”,还可指“迁就”某人或某事。
accommodate还可作“使适应”解,主要指改变或调节自己以适应某人、某事物或新的情况。
accommodate是及物动词,可接名词或代词作宾语,但不接双宾语。作“提供食宿”“供给”等解时常接with引起的短语,表示供给的东西; 作“使适应”解时常接to引起的短语,表示适应的对象。accommodate可用于被动结构。
