一、详细释义:


n.

居住


例句:

The house was declared unsafe for habitation.

那屋子被宣布为不宜居住的危房。


例句:

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

屋宇起平地,耕野生人烟。


住处,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,没有回家。


例句:

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

在居住区后面,北边和西边陡然高耸着砂岩悬崖。


二、词义辨析:


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

这些名词均含有“居住处”之意。 house中性词,泛指一切供居住的建筑物,尤指适合一家一户居住的房屋。 building泛指一切建筑物,不限于居住的房子。 dwelling正式用词,仅指人们居住的任何建筑物。 shelter可指长期或临时的住处,也指简陋或临时搭建的躲避风雨的场所。 habitation指长久或固定的住所或居住地。 home指永久住家时,带有家庭所特有的温暖、情感等气息。 residence指大而堂皇的寓所或公馆,也指法律上的居住点。


三、参考例句:


Is it a house fit for human habitation?

这是幢适合于人居住的房子吗?


Our new habitation was an excavation made in the earth.

我们的新居是在地里挖出的一个洞。


She was not without a settled habitation of her own.

她并不是没有自己的固定住所。


The body is the corporeal habitation of the soul.

身体为灵魂之有形寓所。


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

屋宇起平地,耕野生人烟。