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inhabiting

/in-hab-it/US // ɪnˈhæb ɪt //UK // (ɪnˈhæbɪt) //

居住在,栖息在,栖息在这里的,栖息在这里

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to live or dwell in, as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
    • : to exist or be situated within; dwell in: Weird notions inhabit his mind.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. to live or dwell, as in a place.

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Examples

  • Of all the roles they inhabit, shareholder is a relatively minor one.

  • The 18th-century founders inhabited a world that seems, from our vantage, almost impossibly strange.

  • Some cookies allow certain pieces of content to inhabit a site, such as embedded YouTube videos, Twitter sharing buttons, Facebook log-in forms.

  • Midway between the Orkney and Shetland islands, Britain’s most remote inhabited island is synonymous with the knitting technique to which it gave its name.

  • This species could have inhabited an ecological niche that was empty after the extinction—until a more modern bird drifted back into it much later.

  • I thought of Mark Twain, as I imagined Lincoln inhabiting the voice Huck Finn might have had as an adult.

  • In making the film, I felt very strongly that I was inhabiting the character of Philomena.

  • These works represent only a small portion of the more than two hundred and fifty works by Kelley inhabiting PS1.

  • Inhabiting the streets, they comprise the most persuasive American ambassadors possible.

  • Calle will be inhabiting the room at unannounced times over the weekend.

  • Some of the tribes inhabiting the district of the lower Amazon indulge in snuff-taking.

  • Burning of London bridge, when 3000 persons inhabiting that borough perished in the flames.

  • They levy money on subjects not inhabiting the colony (and consequently not represented in the General Court).

  • Abenakies, a nation formerly inhabiting a large part of the territorial area of the states of New Hampshire and Maine.

  • Accomentas, a band, or division of the Pawtucket Indians inhabiting the northerly part of Massachusetts in 1674.