(2) Acquired modifications (M) also occur. Some of these are in the direction of increased accommodation to circumstances (+), while others are in the direction of diminished accommodation (-). Four major combinations are英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
The regular progress of cultivated life is from necessaries to accommodations, from accommodations to ornaments. By your illustrious predecessors were established marts for manufactures, and colleges for science; but for the arts of elegance, those arts by which manufactures are embellished and science is refined, to found an academy was reserved for your Majesty.英文原著 · 《Seven Discourses on Art》
Public Meeting Held on Bakery-hill, November llth. Political changes contemplated by THE REFORM LEAGUE. A full and fair representation.--Don't you wish you may get it? Manhood suffrage.--Thanks to the Eureka-boys, it costs now one pound. Cheap! No property qualification of members for the Legislative Council.--The identical thing for 'starring' on stumps to a fellow's heart's content. Payment of members.--That's the accommodation! Short duration of Parliament.--Increase the chances of accommodation, that's it.英文原著 · 《The Eureka Stockade》
"Why not, pray? So long as I'm the holder, not the drawer, nor the acceptor. Besides, they are not accommodation bills, but good commercial paper."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them, & formidable to tyrants only.英文原著 · 《AUTOBIOGRAPHY》
At that time the university, the Temple University as it is now called, was not even a college, although it was probably called a college. Conwell had organized it, and it consisted of a number of classes and teachers, meeting in highly inadequate quarters in two little houses. But the imagination of Conwell early pictured great new buildings with accommodations for thousands! In time the dream was realized, the imagination became a fact, and now those second-floor doors actually open from the Temple Church into the Temple University!英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Accommodations will not be necessary, not necessary at all.美剧 · 《Billions》
Because it's yet another fucking accommodation.美剧 · 《Billions》
Hope you enjoyed your accommodations and the dinner.美剧 · 《Billions》
Yeah. They. They have no accommodations when they get here, so I take them in.美剧 · 《Billions》