- [countable]
a thing that you do often and almost without thinking, especially something that is hard to stop doing 習慣 You need to change your eating habits. 你得改變你的飲食習慣。 good/bad habits 好習慣；惡習 Most of us have some undesirable habits. 我們大多數人都有一些不良習慣。 - habit of doing something
The strategy is helping children develop the habit of reading for fun. 策略是幫助孩子養成以閱讀爲樂的習慣。 It's all right to borrow money occasionally, but don't let it become a habit. 偶爾借點錢倒沒關系，但不要養成習慣。 I'd prefer you not to make a habit of it. 我希望你不要習以爲常。 I'm trying to break the habit of staying up too late. 我正試圖改掉熬夜的習慣。 These things have a habit of coming back to haunt you. 這些東西有回來纏着你的習慣。 - in the habit of doing something
I'm not in the habit of letting strangers into my apartment. 我不習慣讓陌生人進我家。 I've got into the habit of turning on the TV as soon as I get home. 我習慣了一回家就打開電視。
Extra ExamplesShe has some very annoying habits. 她有些習慣非常討厭。 He has the irritating habit of biting his nails. 他有咬指甲的討厭習慣。 Healthy lifestyle habits begin when you're young. 健康的生活習慣是從小養成的。 I found some of his personal habits rather disconcerting. 我發覺他的某些個人習慣很是讓人難堪。 I got out of the habit of getting up early. 我改掉了早起的習慣。 I had fallen into my old bad habit of leaving everything until the last minute. 我又恢複了過去什麽事都要拖到最後一刻才幹的壞習慣。 Make a habit of noting down any telephone messages. 要養成記下電話内容的習慣。 It was a nervous habit she'd had for years. 她多年來一直習慣於神經緊張。 It's hard to change the habit of a lifetime. 積習難改。 Mental habits are not easily changed. 思維習慣很難改變。 The pills affected your sleeping habits. 這些藥片會影響你的睡眠習慣。 an effort to change the buying habits of the British public 爲改變英國公衆購物習慣而作出的努力 women's television viewing habits 女性的收視習慣 Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself. 生活總是令人厭煩地重複着。 You must break yourself of the habit. 你必須改掉這個習慣。 one of his more endearing habits 他那些更討人喜歡的習慣之一
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- annoying
- antisocial
- bad
- …
- be in
- have
- acquire
- …
- change
- by habit
- from habit
- out of habit
- …
- a creature of habit
- force of habit
- the habit of a lifetime
- …
- [uncountable]
usual behaviour 慣常行爲；習性 - out of habit
I only do it out of habit. 我這麽做只是出於習慣。 I'm a creature of habit (= I have a fixed and regular way of doing things). 我這人做事總是憑習慣。
Extra ExamplesMr Norris woke up early from force of habit. 諾裏斯先生習慣性地很早就醒了。 Much of what we do in daily life is done by habit. 我們日常生活中做的事許多都是出於習慣。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- annoying
- antisocial
- bad
- …
- be in
- have
- acquire
- …
- change
- by habit
- from habit
- out of habit
- …
- a creature of habit
- force of habit
- the habit of a lifetime
- …
- out of habit
- [countable] (informal)
a strong need to keep using drugs, alcohol or cigarettes regularly （吸毒、喝酒、抽煙的）瘾 He began to finance his habit through burglary. 他開始靠盜竊來獲取可滿足他毒瘾的錢。 She's tried to give up smoking but just can't kick the habit. 她戒過煙，但就是戒不掉。 a 50-a-day habit 每天抽 50 根煙的煙瘾
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- annoying
- antisocial
- bad
- …
- be in
- have
- acquire
- …
- change
- by habit
- from habit
- out of habit
- …
- a creature of habit
- force of habit
- the habit of a lifetime
- …
- [countable]
a long piece of clothing worn by a monk or nun （修道士或修女穿的）長袍；道袍；道服
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French abit, habit, from Latin habitus ‘condition, appearance’, from habere ‘have, consist of’. The term originally meant ‘dress, attire’, later coming to denote physical or mental constitution.
Idioms
force of habit
if you do something from or out of force of habit, you do it without thinking about it and in a particular way because you have always done it that way in the past 習慣力量 It's force of habit that gets me out of bed at 6.15 each morning. 是習慣的力量讓我每天早上6.15起床。