请输入您要查询的单词:

 

单词 habitualize
释义

habitualize

English

Etymology

habitual + -ize

Alternative forms

  • habitualise

Verb

habitualize (third-person singular simple present habitualizes, present participle habitualizing, simple past and past participle habitualized)

  1. (US, law) To classify as a habitual offender (which has implications for sentencing).
    • 2019, Marc L. Miller, ‎Ronald F. Wright, Criminal Procedures: Prosecution and Adjudication, page 152:
      Third, in all but two circuits [those encompassing Miami and Sarasota], the habitual offender sanctions are much more likely to be used against black offenders than non-black offenders, even after adjusting for prior record, the nature of the current offense and a variety of other factors that might have a bearing on the decision to habitualize.
  2. To make habitual.
    • 1973, Earl Ubell, How to save your life, page 68:
      The real secret of exercise is to habitualize it, to make it as automatic as eating lunch.
  3. To cause to treat something as habitual; to familiarize or accustom.
    • 1993, S. Allen Chambers, Poplar Forest and Thomas Jefferson:
      I was much pleased too that Francis was placed at school at Lynchburg, as, besides giving me opportunities of seeing him, it will habitualize him to the neighborhood, and give him those early attachments of friendship and acquaintance which carry their impression and value through life.
随便看

 

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法,是外语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/8/10 2:27:43