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a thing that you do often and almost without thinking, especially something that is hard to stop doing 习惯 You need to change your eating habits. 你得改变你的饮食习惯。 good/bad habits 好习惯；恶习 Most of us have some undesirable habits. 我们大多数人都有一些不良习惯。 - habit of doing something
The strategy is helping children develop the habit of reading for fun. 策略是帮助孩子养成以阅读为乐的习惯。 It's all right to borrow money occasionally, but don't let it become a habit. 偶尔借点钱倒没关系，但不要养成习惯。 I'd prefer you not to make a habit of it. 我希望你不要习以为常。 I'm trying to break the habit of staying up too late. 我正试图改掉熬夜的习惯。 These things have a habit of coming back to haunt you. 这些东西有回来缠着你的习惯。 - in the habit of doing something
I'm not in the habit of letting strangers into my apartment. 我不习惯让陌生人进我家。 I've got into the habit of turning on the TV as soon as I get home. 我习惯了一回家就打开电视。
Extra ExamplesShe has some very annoying habits. 她有些习惯非常讨厌。 He has the irritating habit of biting his nails. 他有咬指甲的讨厌习惯。 Healthy lifestyle habits begin when you're young. 健康的生活习惯是从小养成的。 I found some of his personal habits rather disconcerting. 我发觉他的某些个人习惯很是让人难堪。 I got out of the habit of getting up early. 我改掉了早起的习惯。 I had fallen into my old bad habit of leaving everything until the last minute. 我又恢复了过去什么事都要拖到最后一刻才干的坏习惯。 Make a habit of noting down any telephone messages. 要养成记下电话内容的习惯。 It was a nervous habit she'd had for years. 她多年来一直习惯于神经紧张。 It's hard to change the habit of a lifetime. 积习难改。 Mental habits are not easily changed. 思维习惯很难改变。 The pills affected your sleeping habits. 这些药片会影响你的睡眠习惯。 an effort to change the buying habits of the British public 为改变英国公众购物习惯而作出的努力 women's television viewing habits 女性的收视习惯 Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself. 生活总是令人厌烦地重复着。 You must break yourself of the habit. 你必须改掉这个习惯。 one of his more endearing habits 他那些更讨人喜欢的习惯之一
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
- …
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usual behaviour 惯常行为；习性 - out of habit
I only do it out of habit. 我这么做只是出于习惯。 I'm a creature of habit (= I have a fixed and regular way of doing things). 我这人做事总是凭习惯。
Extra ExamplesMr Norris woke up early from force of habit. 诺里斯先生习惯性地很早就醒了。 Much of what we do in daily life is done by habit. 我们日常生活中做的事许多都是出于习惯。
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、抽烟的）瘾 He began to finance his habit through burglary. 他开始靠盗窃来获取可满足他毒瘾的钱。 She's tried to give up smoking but just can't kick the habit. 她戒过烟，但就是戒不掉。 a 50-a-day habit 每天抽 50 根烟的烟瘾
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
- …
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a long piece of clothing worn by a monk or nun （修道士或修女穿的）长袍；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 习惯力量 It's force of habit that gets me out of bed at 6.15 each morning. 是习惯的力量让我每天早上6.15起床。