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inhabitable

/in-hab-i-tuh-buhl/US // ɪnˈhæb ɪ tə bəl //

可居住的,可居住,适合居住的,宜居

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : able or fit to be lived in:Through years of neglect and eventual disrepair, the larger portion of the city has utterly collapsed and is no longer inhabitable.

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Examples

  • To their surprise, Blum said, the composition of mercury isotopes in the deep-sea fish strongly resembled that of fish inhabiting the upper 1,600 feet or so of the ocean.

  • The games reflect the two worlds the boys inhabit, one by day and the other at night.

  • We know, for instance, of several occasions when fish and frogs have “rained” onto inhabited areas.

  • The adventure-filled island world of “Bugsnax” that they inhabit is a surprising, comic and enjoyable one, but the game of “Bugsnax” bugged me just enough to sap some of that enjoyment.

  • Now research shows they also damage the forest soils they inhabit.

  • Only two soil types in the world are inhabitable for this root louse: one is sand, and the other is slate.

  • But to make the country inhabitable, and to build towns, it must have cost immense labor.

  • Soon the fertile lowlands ended and they passed beyond the limit of the inhabitable region.

  • The distinguished lady considered that no cities were inhabitable except the capitals that have a court.

  • Bellerophon made this mountain inhabitable, and was therefore said to have killed the Chimæra.

  • Water-soaked, ill-smelling, but inhabitable, the old house again possessed a light and a hearth.