unaccustomed

Word family adjectiveunaccustomednoununaccustomedness

un·ac·cus·tomed /ˌʌnəˈkʌstəmd◂/ adjectiveadj formal

1 unaccustomed to (doing) something formal USED TO/ACCUSTOMED TOnot used to something 对(做)某事不习惯的

a country boy, unaccustomed to city ways

一个不习惯城市生活方式的乡下男孩

Examples from the Corpus

unaccustomed to (doing) something• Unemployed or still at school, often unaccustomed to budget discipline, young people now have unprecedented opportunities to outspend their means.• Human Resource departments are also unaccustomed to classifying employees according to these informal roles that are so vital to innovation.• Some of these visitors will be unaccustomed to country roads and to the hazards of walking along a road with no footpath.• Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky.• We became unaccustomed to silence, which was a signal for alarm.• They were people who were unaccustomed to silence, who were comforted by the racket of their own voices.• Many had, during marriage, distinct conjugal roles and were therefore quite unaccustomed to undertaking partners' household tasks.• They had grown unaccustomed to using their power of collective action.

2 [only before noun]UNUSUAL not usual, typical, or familiar 不寻常的；非惯例的；不熟悉的

She was completely exhausted by the unaccustomed heat.

反常的炎热使她浑身乏力。

In everyday English, people usually say that they are not used to something rather than unaccustomed to it: 在日常英语中，人们表示不习惯某事物时一般说 not used to，而不说 unaccustomed to

She wasn't used to living on her own.

她不习惯一个人生活。

Examples from the Corpus

unaccustomed• Extensive field research can mean long periods living under adverse conditions to which the researcher is unaccustomed.• Putting an economic rug back under the family means paying unaccustomed attention to issues of family business.• Imposing such a structure in baseball will take tough bargaining and unaccustomed discipline on the part of the owners.• Government service also brought Mr Packard unaccustomed public attention and made him and his company a magnet for controversy and protest.• As she stepped from her Rolls, Elinor shivered in the unaccustomed raw air of February.• unaccustomed speed and decisiveness• We became unaccustomed to silence, which was a signal for alarm.• They were people who were unaccustomed to silence, who were comforted by the racket of their own voices.• In fact she felt off her head, her mind a sickening unaccustomed whirl.

单词	unaccustomed
释义	unaccustomed Word family adjectiveunaccustomednoununaccustomedness un·ac·cus·tomed /ˌʌnəˈkʌstəmd◂/ adjectiveadj formal 1 unaccustomed to (doing) something formal USED TO/ACCUSTOMED TOnot used to something 对(做)某事不习惯的 a country boy, unaccustomed to city ways 一个不习惯城市生活方式的乡下男孩 Examples from the Corpus unaccustomed to (doing) something• Unemployed or still at school, often unaccustomed to budget discipline, young people now have unprecedented opportunities to outspend their means.• Human Resource departments are also unaccustomed to classifying employees according to these informal roles that are so vital to innovation.• Some of these visitors will be unaccustomed to country roads and to the hazards of walking along a road with no footpath.• Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky.• We became unaccustomed to silence, which was a signal for alarm.• They were people who were unaccustomed to silence, who were comforted by the racket of their own voices.• Many had, during marriage, distinct conjugal roles and were therefore quite unaccustomed to undertaking partners' household tasks.• They had grown unaccustomed to using their power of collective action. 2 [only before noun]UNUSUAL not usual, typical, or familiar 不寻常的；非惯例的；不熟悉的 She was completely exhausted by the unaccustomed heat. 反常的炎热使她浑身乏力。 Register In everyday English, people usually say that they are not used to something rather than unaccustomed to it: 在日常英语中，人们表示不习惯某事物时一般说 not used to，而不说 unaccustomed to She wasn't used to living on her own. 她不习惯一个人生活。 Examples from the Corpus unaccustomed• Extensive field research can mean long periods living under adverse conditions to which the researcher is unaccustomed.• Putting an economic rug back under the family means paying unaccustomed attention to issues of family business.• Imposing such a structure in baseball will take tough bargaining and unaccustomed discipline on the part of the owners.• Government service also brought Mr Packard unaccustomed public attention and made him and his company a magnet for controversy and protest.• As she stepped from her Rolls, Elinor shivered in the unaccustomed raw air of February.• unaccustomed speed and decisiveness• We became unaccustomed to silence, which was a signal for alarm.• They were people who were unaccustomed to silence, who were comforted by the racket of their own voices.• In fact she felt off her head, her mind a sickening unaccustomed whirl.
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