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If people or animals inhabit a place, they live there. It is a little more formal and a little more “geography book” than live in. We often use it for animals in a habitat, and for people in a region, an island, or a city in history or science writing. You inhabit a forest; in casual speech you would not usually say you inhabit your flat — you live in it. Writers sometimes stretch it and say a character inhabits a role, meaning they live inside that part, but that is a looser, literary use. The noun for the person is ; the place that suits a living thing is a habitat.
居住於;棲息於(人用居住,動物常用棲息)
組成From Old French enhabiter, from Latin inhabitāre (in + habitāre, “to dwell”).
同家族的字
- habitatthe place a living thing naturally lives
- inhabitanta person or animal that inhabits a place
- habitationa more formal word for a dwelling or the fact of living somewhere
原始詞典資料2 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。
inhabitverb/ɪnˈhæbɪt/
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To live or reside in.
- The Inuit inhabit the Arctic.
- O, who would inhabit this bleak world alone?
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To be present in.
- Strange thoughts inhabit my mind.
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。