accommodate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 提供住宿; 使适应; 容纳，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Weston's dining-room does not accommodate more than ten comfortably; and for my part, I would rather, un-der such circumstances, fall short by two than exceed by two.
-- Their first pause was at the Crown Inn, an inconsiderable house, though the principal one of the sort, where a couple of pair of post-horses were kept, more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road; and his companions had not expected to be detained by any interest excited there; but in passing it they gave the history of the large room visibly added; it had been built many years ago for a ball-room, and while the neighbourhood had been in a particularly populous, dancing state, had been occasionally used as such; but such brilliant days had long passed away, and now the highest purpose for which it was ever want-ed was to accommodate a whist club established among the gentlemen and half-gentlemen of the place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One half of it that moiety in which the comfortable proprietress was then seated was carpeted, and so partitioned off at the further end as to accommodate a sleeping-place, constructed after the fashion of a berth on board ship, which was shaded, like the little windows, with fair white curtains, and looked comfortable enough, though by what kind of gymnastic exercise the lady of the caravan ever contrived to get into it, was an unfathomable mystery.
-- If any man has got anything to say again Jem Groves, let him say it to Jem Groves, and Jem Groves can accommodate him with a customer on any terms from four pound a side to forty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope I have learnt how to accommodate myself to the changes of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They began to accommodate themselves to his level, calling him 'Mr Baptist,' but treating him like a baby, and laughing immoderately at his lively gestures and his childish English more, because he didn't mind it, and laughed too.
-- If you wish to know the complaint I make against you, it is, in so many plain words, that you really ought not to go into Society unless you can accommodate yourself to Society.'
-- You don't know half of what I do to accommodate Society.
-- You have always (as I have informed Mrs General) been my favourite child; I have always made you a hum a friend and companion; in return, I beg I ha I do beg, that you accommodate yourself better to hum circumstances, and dutifully do what becomes your your station.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Squaring her yards, she bore down, ranged abeam under the Pequod's lee, and lowered a boat; it soon drew nigh; but, as the side-ladder was being rigged by Starbuck's order to accommodate the visiting captain, the stranger in question waved his hand from his boat's stern in token of that proceeding being entirely unnecessary.
-- For truly, the Right Whale's mouth would accommodate a couple of whist-tables, and comfortably seat all the players.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You're a-going to accommodate us, and wot's to prevent my standing treat for a pint or so, in return?'
-- So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet, we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and, if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost matter of impossibility to separate the two.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got all things ready as he had directed, and waited the next morning with the boat washed clean, her ancient and pendants out, and everything to accommodate his guests; when by-and-by my patron came on board alone, and told me his guests had put off going from some business that fell out, and ordered me, with the man and boy, as usual, to go out with the boat and catch them some fish, for that his friends were to sup at his house, and commanded that as soon as I got some fish I should bring it home to his house; all which I prepared to do.
-- - During all this time I worked to make this room or cave spacious enough to accommodate me as a ware-house or magazine, a kitchen, a dining-room, and a cellar.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He really pressed them, with some earnestness, to consider Norland as their home; and, as no plan appeared so eligible to Mrs. Dashwood as remaining there till she could accommodate herself with a house in the neighbourhood, his invitation was accepted.
-- When my mother removes into another house my services shall be readily given to accommodate her as far as I can.
-- He seemed really anxious to accommodate them and the whole of his letter was written in so friendly a style as could not fail of giving pleasure to his cousin; more especially at a moment when she was suffering under the cold and unfeeling behaviour of her nearer connections.
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