单词 | dweller |
释义 | dwellerdwel‧ler /ˈdwelə $ -ər/ noun [countable] ![]() ![]() EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a city dweller Phrases (=someone who lives in a city)· In the summer, city dwellers escape to the sea. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► rural· The displacement of large numbers of rural dwellers to urban areas has increased overcrowding in urban schools.· But if gender factors continue to be ignored, the majority of rural dwellers may find themselves little better off. ► urban· Furthermore, the causes of fuelwood scarcity must seem remote and diffuse to the average urban dweller.· What the farmer gets is what the urban dweller pays minus transportation and distribution costs.· The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible.· The real customers of the Department of Housing and Urban Development have not been poor urban dwellers, but real estate developers.· Indeed, Cairenes are among the most resourceful of urban dwellers.· Census takers historically have undercounted urban dwellers, particularly blacks and ethnic minorities, they argued.· Dogtags were distributed among urban dwellers to make identification of the dead easier in the aftermath of what seemed inevitable.· As federal and state support for the cities diminishes, poor urban dwellers will become even more destitute and marginalized. NOUN► cave· Aggression would have given a survival advantage in cave dweller days and earlier and so would have been favored by natural selection. ► city· But then, city dwellers have never been long on modesty.· Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller.· Far from being desperately poor peasants, the squatters were clearly city dwellers.· Poverty has become persistent, and apparently self-reinforcing, for millions of city dwellers, most of them black or Hispanic.· This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller.· Hospital workers once alert for the sound became inured to it, like city dwellers to the sound of sirens.· It is the dilemma of city dwellers, of all those refugees from the past in search of the future.· Police stood at highways and railroad stations to halt the exodus of thousands of city dwellers. ► forest· But in some counties the forest dwellers had not waited for these instructions. ► slum· Answers to these questions have important implications for slum dwellers, whose only local source of medical care may be private doctors.· Half the populations of Delhi, Nairobi, and Manila are slum dwellers. ► town· Similarly, an amendment carried in November 1917 did much to nullify the reduction of plural voting rights for town dwellers.· As was to be expected, town dwellers were better informed than rural people.· Nobles were urban, but outside the areas of disseminated settlement the peasants and farmers were likewise town dwellers.· Unlike many town dwellers, farmers can at least eat well.· To a town dweller the silence is eerie - so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers.· It is suited to town dwellers. PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► city/town/cave etc dweller city/town/cave etc dweller a person or animal that lives in a particular place:
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