- 1適宜居住的；可住的
If a place is habitable, people could actually live there: there is air, water, a way not to freeze or burn, and the building or land is not falling apart or full of poison. It is a careful, slightly formal word. You use it for houses after a fire, for ships, for islands, for planets — anywhere the real question is “could a person stay alive here?”, not “is it nice?” Scientists talk about a habitable planet meaning a world that might be gentle enough for life, not just dead rock. “Barely habitable” is a common stretch: yes, you could live there, but you would not want to. You would not call a café habitable; that is the wrong size of problem.
From the word’s history
From Middle English, from Middle French habitable, from Latin habitabilis, from habito 'dwell'.
源自拉丁文 habitābilis，來自 habitō「居住」。
組成habit (from Latin habitō, “dwell, live”) + able (“can be”). From Middle English abitable / habytable, from Middle French habitable, from Latin habitābilis.
同家族的字
- inhabitsame Latin habitō: to live in a place
- habitatthe place that is lived in, same root
- habitationa place to live, same root
- inhabitanta person who lives somewhere, same root
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habitableadj/ˈhæbɪtəbəl/
- 1
Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
- After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.
- Humankind has never found any other habitable planets apart from Earth.
- 2
Of an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.
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