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Inhabitant House Live Lives Place 英 ɪn'hæbɪtənt] 美 ɪn'hæbɪtənt

英语单词 inhabitant
英美音标 英 [ɪn'hæbɪtənt] 美 [ɪn'hæbɪtənt]
中文释义 n.居民
英语例句 (1) Every inhabitant here has an obligation to pay taxes.
(2) The inhabitant can see the Church House and the Death House, but never the exterior of the Court House.
中文例句 (1) 这里的每一位居民都有纳税的义务。
(2) 居民也能看到教会安置和死囚刑前的住房,但从未见过法院的外貌。
vocabulary简明 Someone who usually lives in a specific place — whether it's a mansion, a cave, or a beach house — is its inhabitant.
vocabulary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."
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]居民 The inhabitants of a place are the people who live there.
  [usu pl]
  • ...the inhabitants of Glasgow.

    格拉斯哥市居民

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