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To dwell is to live in a place — to have your home there. You find this use in old books, songs, and careful writing: people dwell in a land or a house. In ordinary talk now, we say live. 'I dwell in Taipei' would sound stiff or poetic. Though actually, English uses dwell all the time in another way: to dwell on (or upon) a thing is to keep thinking about it, often too long, and not let it go. Both ideas share 'staying' — staying in a place, or staying on a thought. This entry is the 'live in a place' meaning.
居住、住在（書面／較文）；老是想著則是 dwell on
組成It does not split in modern English. From Middle English dwellen ('delay, live, remain'), from Old English dwellan, which first meant to mislead, to stray, or to delay. A Germanic verb behind it meant to hold up or hesitate. The 'live somewhere' meaning came later, from the idea of staying.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dwellnoun/dwɛl/
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
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businesselectricalelectrical-engineeringA planned delay in a timed control program.
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automotivetransportvehiclesIn a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
dwellverb/dwɛl/
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literaryTo live; to reside.
- I am fully resolved to go dwell in another house.
- The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides.
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To linger (on); to remain fixated.
- Stop dwelling on the past!
- So it came about that long ere Ailie reached home it was on young Heriotside that her mind dwelled, and it was the love of him that made her eyes glow and her cheeks redden.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo be in a given state.
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To abide; to remain; to continue.
- My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.
- I'll rather dwell in my necessity.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。