A habitat is the natural home of a plant or animal — the forest, river, desert, reef, or even a crack in a wall — where that living thing can find food, water, shelter, and the right weather.

habitatA habitat is 是動植物的自然棲息地the natural home of a plant or animal——像森林、河流、沙漠、珊瑚礁the forest, river, desert, reef，甚至牆壁的裂縫or even a crack in a wall——在那裡where 那個生物能找到食物、水、遮蔽和合適的天氣that living thing can find food, water, shelter, and the right weather。

It is not a person’s house, and it is not a “habit” (a thing you do again and again), though the two words sit next to each other on the page and trick the eye.

它It 不是指人的房子is not a person's house，而and 它也is not a "habit" 不是「habit」（一再重複做的事）(a thing you do again and again)，雖然though 這兩個字the two words 在書頁上緊靠在一起sit next to each other on the page 而and 容易讓眼睛看錯trick the eye。

Biologists use it as a plain technical word; newspapers use it when a forest is cut down and animals “lose their habitat.” People do stretch it to humans (“urban habitat”) in a jokey or academic way, but the solid centre is still plants and animals and the kind of place they belong in.

生物學家Biologists 把它當成一個普通的專業術語用use it as a plain technical word；報紙newspapers 則在森林被砍掉、動物「失去棲息地」時使用use it when a forest is cut down and animals "lose their habitat."。人們People 確實會把它延伸到人身上（像"urban habitat"）do stretch it to humans ("urban habitat") 用開玩笑或學術的方式in a jokey or academic way，但but 核心重點the solid centre 還是動植物以及牠們所屬的那種地方is still plants and animals and the kind of place they belong in。