詞彙精選:habitation的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義:
n.
居住
例句:
The house was declared unsafe for habitation.
那屋子被宣佈爲不宜居住的危房。
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.
那晚我就留在那裏,沒有回家。
例句:
Behind the habitations, the sandstone cliffs rose abruptly to the north and west.
在居住區後面,北邊和西邊陡然高聳着砂岩懸崖。
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築物,尤指適合一家一戶居住的房屋。building泛指一切建築物,不限於居住的房子。dwelling正式用詞,僅指人們居住的任何建築物。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?
這是幢適合於人居住的房子嗎?
Our new habitation was an excavation made in the earth.
我們的新居是在地裏挖出的一個洞。
She was not without a settled habitation of her own.
她並不是沒有自己的固定住所。
The body is the corporeal habitation of the soul.
身體爲靈魂之有形寓所。
Signs of habitation appeared and the fields gave way to houses.
屋宇起平地,耕野生人煙。