词汇精选:habitation的用法和辨析
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。