英语词汇“dwell”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINdwell

Origin:

Old English dwellan

VERB TABLE

dwell

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	dwell
	he, she, it	dwells
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	dwelt, dwelled
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have dwelt, dwelled
	he, she, it	has dwelt, dwelled
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had dwelt, dwelled
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will dwell
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have dwelt, dwelled

Continuous Form
Present	I	am dwelling
	he, she, it	is dwelling
	you, we, they	are dwelling
Past	I, he, she, it	was dwelling
	you, we, they	were dwelling
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been dwelling
	he, she, it	has been dwelling
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been dwelling
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be dwelling
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been dwelling

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

A woodsman and his family dwelt in the middle of the forest.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

But in her writing and speeches Shaughnessy did not dwell on this problem; perhaps that was a necessary part of salesmanship.
Each country has its own geography where the spirit dwells and where physical force can never conquer even an inch of ground.
He had certainly never bothered to dwell much before on what the moon saw as it climbed.
I am suspicious of gods who dwell benignly in heavens, immutable and supreme.
The Lord in his glory had actually come to dwell amongst his people.
They force the reader to slow down, to dwell or brood on what is happening.

Longman Language Activatorto think about something a lot► give something a lot of thought

· I've given this a lot of thought, because we all know that health care issues are very important today.give a lot of thought to something · Tony has given a lot of thought to what made his father a legendary coach.· Many of the new West-Coast designers have obviously given a lot of thought to their furniture designs.

► have something on your mind

to be thinking about something all the time, especially because you are worried about it: · She has something on her mind, but she won't tell us what it is.· "Should we tell Dad?" "No, he's got a lot on his mind right now."be on somebody's mind: · Come on, tell me what's on your mind.· I'm not looking forward to the interview. It's been on my mind all week.

► can't stop thinking about somebody/something

also can't get somebody/something out of my mind informal to be unable to stop thinking about someone or something, even when you do not want to think about them: · After the first three months of the pregnancy were over, I just couldn't stop thinking about food.· I just can't get that poor family out of my mind.

► dwell on

to spend too much time thinking about something sad or unpleasant - use this especially when telling someone not to do this: · Brian's still dwelling too much on the past, in my opinion.· There's no use in dwelling on problems that we can't do anything about.

► brood

to keep thinking for a long time about something that worries you or that makes you angry or upset: · Austin sat in the corner brooding and looking sorry for himself.brood on/over/about: · You can't spend all your time at home brooding about the way he treated you.· The poetry spends a lot of time brooding over death.

► be wrapped up in

to spend all your time thinking about something that concerns you, for example your work, so that you have no time to think about other things or other people: · These days she's so wrapped up in her children she never sees anybody.· Sometimes the professors are so wrapped up in their graduate students, they ignore the undergraduates.

► be preoccupied

to be thinking all the time about something that is worrying you or that is important to you, so that it is difficult to think about anything else: · What is being done to end the crisis which has preoccupied the country's political leadership?be preoccupied with: · My mother was preoccupied with my brother and his illness, so I was allowed to do what I wanted.

► have something on the brain

spoken to be always thinking about a particular thing - use this when you want to say that someone thinks about something far too much: · It's unbelievable - you have sex on the brain 24 hours a day!

► turn something over in your mind

to think about something carefully and repeatedly, especially something you do not fully understand or that you have not made a final decision about: · When Dan left, Mae stayed there, turning his invitation over in her mind.· As he studied the picture of the little boy, he began to turn an idea over in his mind.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► on

· But these are technical considerations not to be dwelt on here.· Why a pair was so expensive just four years ago is something you could dwell on well into the night.· This is worth dwelling on, because those who brush quality off as unaffordable abound in the business world as well.· She tried not to dwell on why it was that she hadn't.· The significance of the fact that so many states are still in play is worth dwelling on.· The Murphy kitchen was not something to dwell on.· Her mind sheered away from images she didn't want to dwell on.

► too

· But I don't think the readers of Aura will want me to dwell too much on the pain.· But there are other, less positive reasons for not dwelling too much on the war.· While Schweitzer tended to dwell too exclusively on this aspect, he was certainly justified in stressing it.· I don't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here.

► upon

· The scale of the trauma is perhaps still too great to be dwelt upon for long.· But that is not the story they dwell upon.

NOUN► house

· Goblin A general name for the familiar demon or mischievous spirit who dwells in private houses or in the chinks of trees.· They drew rein in Sparta before the lordly dwelling, a house far more splendid than either young man had ever seen.· After more than forty years, strangers now dwelt in the houses I knew at Wood Green.

► time

· He hardly had time to dwell on such matters, however.· Give yourself the time to dwell on the miracle that has just taken place.· At the time he didn't dwell on the man whose cap, and life, he stole.

VERB► want

· I want to dwell upon the draft immigration rules because most hon. Members have mentioned them.· I do not want to dwell on it; we know it to be true.· But I don't think the readers of Aura will want me to dwell too much on the pain.· Her mind sheered away from images she didn't want to dwell on.· But I don't want to dwell on that too much.· I don't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here.