0 something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are doing it -- 習慣
figurative humorous I'm afraid I've got a chocolate habit. 恐怕我巧克力吃上癮了。
a cocaine habit 古柯鹼毒癮
She has a habit of finishing off other people's sentences. 她有打斷別人說話的壞習慣。
I'm not really in the habit of looking at (= I don't usually look at) other people's clothes, but even I noticed that awful suit! 我沒有觀察別人穿著的習慣，可是就連我都注意到了那身難看的套裝！
I don't mind being woken up once or twice in the middle of the night by my flatmate so long as she doesn't make a habit of it (= do it frequently). 我不介意半夜裡被室友吵醒一兩次，只要她不經常這樣就行。
I'm trying to get him to break (= end intentionally) the habit of switching on the TV when he comes home at night. 我設法讓他改掉晚上一回家就打開電視的習慣。
I was taught to drive by my boyfriend and I'm afraid I've picked up (= caught) some of his bad habits. 我是跟我男友學的開車，恐怕我已經染上了他的一些壞習慣。
I used to swim twice a week, but I seem to have got out of (= ended) the habit recently. 我過去每週遊兩次泳，但最近似乎打破了這個習慣。
I'm trying not to get into (= start) the habit of always having biscuits with my coffee. 我盡量避免養成喝咖啡時總是吃餅乾的習慣。
I always buy the same brand of toothpaste out of (= because of) habit. 我出於習慣總是買同一個牌子的牙膏。
1 a special piece of long clothing worn by monks and nuns -- （僧侶或修女穿的）衣服，長袍
She had herself photographed not once, but thrice in her elegant riding habit.
Intentions driven by habit can be interrupted, often by unforeseen or relatively dramatic events, causing the agent to deliberate and perhaps adopt another intention.
They returned to the mainland with either memories or habits of opium and this was fundamental for the spread of smoking in the eighteenth century.
Levels of habits and real consumption are lower than at the initial steady state.
However, there is no reason to assume that the serviceable habits have entirely lost their original significance.
Bioethics really started as an inquiry into the largely uncontrolled practices, habits, and proceedings of the medical structure and profession.
When asked about their prescribing habits, just 60% were found to actually comply with the recommendations (range, 10% to 95%, depending on the item).
Three habits of highly effective signaling pathways : principles of transcriptional control by developmental cell signaling.
