| 单词 | inhabit |
| 释义 | inhabit (once / 82 pages) v When you inhabit a place, you live there. When actors inhabit their roles, they seem to become the characters, no longer actors reciting their lines. It is like they live the life of the character. The verb inhabit comes from the Old French enhabiter, meaning “dwell in.” You can inhabit an actual place, like a home, a cave, or a neighborhood. You can also inhabit an imaginary world, like those who choose to inhabit cyberspace with a made-up persona, telling about experiences that are nothing like the person's real life. Actors who truly inhabit their roles sometimes struggle to return to reality after a movie or television show wraps. WORD FAMILYinhabit: inhabitable, inhabitancy, inhabitant, inhabitation, inhabited, inhabiting, inhabits+/inhabitable: uninhabitable/inhabitant: inhabitants/inhabitation: inhabitations/inhabited: uninhabited/uninhabitable: uninhabitably USAGE EXAMPLESBut both the show’s protagonist and the world she inhabits are underdeveloped. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) The movie is inhabited by a cinematic spirit as well. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) Actually, it’s something of a return to the world Ms. Peevey inhabited as a cute, blond 10-year-old from Oklahoma City. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted Syn|Hypo|Hyper dwell, live, populate tenant occupy as a tenant neighbor, neighbourlive or be located as a neighbor lodge in, occupy, residelive (in a certain place) domicile, domiciliate, reside, shackmake one's home in a particular place or community peoplefurnish with people overpopulatecause to have too great a population cohabit, live together, shack upshare living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple lodgebe a lodger; stay temporarily bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp, tentlive in or as if in a tent nestinhabit a nest, usually after building board, roomlive and take one's meals at or in move inoccupy a place rusticatelive in the country and lead a rustic life stay atreside temporarily squatoccupy (a dwelling) illegally sleep over, stay overstay overnight crashoccupy, usually uninvited miscegenatemarry or cohabit with a person of another race be occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere 2v be present in sweet memories inhabit this house Hypo|Hyper infest live on or in a host, as of parasites infest, invade, overrunoccupy in large numbers or live on a host be occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere 3v exist or be situated within Strange notions inhabited her mind Syn|Hyper dwell be, exist have an existence, be extant |
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