accommodate

収容する

人や物を入れるのに十分な広さがある。

やさしい英語で： If something can hold people or things, it has enough space for them.

• This hall can accommodate two hundred people.
• The garage accommodates both cars easily.
• Can the shelves accommodate these larger books?

類義語： hold, fit

よく使う表現： accommodate ten people, accommodate more seats

対応する、配慮する

相手の必要や希望に合うように物事を整える。

やさしい英語で： If you help someone in this way, you arrange things to meet their needs or wishes.

• We can accommodate your request.
• The teacher accommodated her need for extra time.
• Can you accommodate customers with food allergies?

類義語： help, assist, oblige

よく使う表現： accommodate someone, accommodate special needs

宿泊させる、住まわせる

人が住んだり、泊まったり、働いたりする場所を用意する。

やさしい英語で： If a place houses people, it gives them somewhere to live, stay, or work.

• The hotel can accommodate your family.
• The college accommodated students in nearby houses.
• Temporary cabins accommodate workers during the summer.

類義語： house, lodge

よく使う表現： accommodate guests, accommodate students

適応させる、順応する

新しい状況に合うよう、自分や物事を変える。

やさしい英語で： To change yourself or something so that it fits a new situation.

• We must accommodate ourselves to these changes.
• He accommodated his routine to the new timetable.
• They gradually accommodated themselves to life abroad.

使い方： accommodate oneself to something (She had to accommodate herself to the slower pace.)

類義語： adapt, adjust

よく使う表現： accommodate oneself to something, accommodate something to something

当てはめる

発言や教えを、特定の事実や出来事に合うように解釈する。

やさしい英語で： To explain a statement or teaching in a way that makes it fit particular facts or events.

• They accommodate the teaching to modern circumstances.
• The scholar accommodated the passage to known historical events.
• She tried to accommodate his statement to the facts.

使い方： accommodate something to something (He accommodated the ancient prophecy to recent events.)

類義語： adapt, fit

よく使う表現： accommodate prophecy to events, accommodate teachings to circumstances