一、詳細釋義:


n.

居住


例句:

The house was declared unsafe for habitation.

那屋子被宣布為不宜居住的危房。


例句:

Signs of habitation appeared and the fields gave way to houses.

屋宇起平地,耕野生人煙。


住處,住所,住宅;聚居地


例句:

I spent all that evening there, and went not back to my habitation.

那晚我就留在那里,沒有回家。


例句:

Behind the habitations, the sandstone cliffs rose abruptly to the north and west.

在居住區(qū)后面,北邊和西邊陡然高聳著砂巖懸崖。


二、詞義辨析:


house,building,dwelling,shelter,habitation,home,residence

這些名詞均含有“居住處”之意。 house中性詞,泛指一切供居住的建筑物,尤指適合一家一戶居住的房屋。 building泛指一切建筑物,不限于居住的房子。 dwelling正式用詞,僅指人們居住的任何建筑物。 shelter可指長期或臨時的住處,也指簡陋或臨時搭建的躲避風雨的場所。 habitation指長久或固定的住所或居住地。 home指永久住家時,帶有家庭所特有的溫暖、情感等氣息。 residence指大而堂皇的寓所或公館,也指法律上的居住點。


三、參考例句:


Is it a house fit for human habitation?

這是幢適合于人居住的房子嗎?


Our new habitation was an excavation made in the earth.

我們的新居是在地里挖出的一個洞。


She was not without a settled habitation of her own.

她并不是沒有自己的固定住所。


The body is the corporeal habitation of the soul.

身體為靈魂之有形寓所。


Signs of habitation appeared and the fields gave way to houses.

屋宇起平地,耕野生人煙。