| 单词 | dwell |
| 释义 | dwell (once / 80 pages) v To dwell in a home is to live in it. To dwell on something — usually something bad, like a failed romance or terrible service in a restaurant –- is to think or speak about it at great length. Dwell has been part of the English language for over 1,000 years. The definition of the word has evolved considerably since its first recorded use in the ninth century when Old English dwellan meant "lead astray" or "hinder." If you constantly dwell on the bad things in life, it could hinder you from seeing the good or lead you astray to the negative. If you keep complaining, your friends might tell you to stop dwelling on it or, if they're really annoyed, they'll say, "Get over it!" WORD FAMILYdwell: dwelled, dweller, dwelling, dwells, dwelt, indwell+/dweller: dwellers/dwelling: dwellings/indwell: indweller, indwelling, indwells, indwelt/indweller: indwellers USAGE EXAMPLESThat this might be less a comedy and more a peep into how coercive control operates isn’t dwelled upon in these articles. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) It’s more difficult to dwell on good news. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Quinn doesn’t like to dwell in the past, but he conceded learning some valuable lessons that paid off this season. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean Syn|Hypo|Hyper inhabit, 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 exist or be situated within Syn|Hyper inhabit be, exist have an existence, be extant 3v originate (in) The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country Syn|Hyper consist, lie, lie in be, exist have an existence, be extant 4v think moodily or anxiously about something Syn|Hyper brood care, worry be concerned with 5v come back to Don't dwell on the past Syn|Hyper harp ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell to say, state, or perform again |
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