英语单词 | inhabitant |
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英美音标 | [in'hæbitənt] |
中文释义 | n.居民,居住者 |
vocab简明 | Someone who usually lives in a specific place — whether it's a mansion, a cave, or a beach house — is its inhabitant. |
vocab扩展 | The old man who lives in the scary house down the street is its inhabitant, and the skunk that built a nest under your porch is — unfortunately — an inhabitant of your front yard. The noun inhabitant comes from the verb inhabit, or "to live in," which in turn is rooted in the Latin word inhabitare, "to dwell in or to live in." |
柯林斯星级 | ★★☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]居民 The inhabitants of a place are the people who live there. [usu pl]
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来源 | 2007.0 |
Tags: 单词::2007
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