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dweller

/dwel/US // dwɛl //UK // (dwɛl) //

居住者,住户,住家,住客

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dwelt or dwelled, dwell·ing.

    • : to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
    • : to live or continue in a given condition or state: to dwell in happiness.
    • : to linger over, emphasize, or ponder in thought, speech, or writing: to dwell on a particular point in an argument.
    • : to be motionless for a certain interval during operation.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Machinery. a flat or cylindrical area on a cam for maintaining a follower in a certain position during part of a cycle.a period in a cycle in the operation of a machine or engine during which a given part remains motionless.

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Examples

  • It's enough to make any city dweller run for the hills, for this is modern nature writing at its very finest.

  • Multiply NBC's status as television's cellar dweller by 10 and you get a rough idea of how the music industry regarded EMI.

  • Our American cave dweller will discover that no narrow road lies before him but a fate sealed in concrete.

  • Being a dweller of the trees by birth, Kopee was always sensitive to tree sounds.

  • Protection from the cold was also sought in caverns and rock shelters, and for a very long period man remained a cave-dweller.

  • Among these pests, the most important to the dweller in a large city is the tussock moth, which destroys our shade trees.

  • Man is a weak and pitiful dweller in a violent world and nothing has done so much to sharpen his wits as fear.

  • She was an inhabitant of the prairie, a dweller in the cabins which stand upon the verge of the hills.