adapt

Compared meaning: to adjust to new needs or conditions (verb).

比较义项：调整以适应不同需求或条件（动词）。

• adapt 本词

  Adapt emphasizes changing oneself or something itself to suit new conditions, often used with 'to' and implying personal or structural change.

  adapt 强调改变自身或事物本身以适应新条件，常与介词 to 连用，侧重自身或结构上的改变。

  New employees must adapt quickly to the busy office routine.

  新员工必须迅速适应繁忙的办公室日常工作。

• accommodate

  Accommodate emphasizes adjusting plans, arrangements or systems to meet someone else's needs or requests, often collocating with 'needs' or 'requests', without implying the accommodator itself changes.

  accommodate 强调调整计划、安排或制度以满足他人的需求或要求，常与 needs 或 requests 搭配，并不表示调整者自身发生了改变。

  The teacher adjusted her lesson plan to accommodate students with different learning needs.

  这位老师调整了教案，以适应学生不同的学习需求。

Adapt and accommodate both mean to change to fit new conditions. Adapt means to change yourself or something to suit new conditions. Accommodate means to adjust plans to meet someone else's needs. Accommodate can mean to hold people or give lodging; that is not compared.

这两个词都表示为了适应新情况而做出调整，但侧重不同：adapt 强调改变自身或事物本身以适应新环境，而 accommodate 强调调整安排以满足他人的需求。这里不比较 accommodate 的「容纳」和「提供住宿」义项。