| 词汇 | habitation |
| 释义 | habitationWord family nounhabitabilityhabitanthabitationadverbhabitablyadjectivehabitablehabitational Buildings hab·i·ta·tion /ˌhæbɪˈteɪʃən/ noun formal 1. unfit for human habitation formal WRONG/UNSUITABLEa building that is unfit for human habitation is not safe or healthy for people to live in 不适合人类居住的，不适宜住人的 Examples from the Corpus unfit for human habitation• Many of the housing projects are unfit for human habitation.• They pronounced the attic unfit for human habitation and Jean-Claude inadequate to support me.• The slums built during the Industrial Revolution soon became unfit for human habitation.• In the 1960s, the flats were declared unfit for human habitation and demolished.• That single room was unfit for human habitation.• The court was told that Blake had charged hundreds of dollars in rent for rooms that were unfit for human habitation. 2 [uncountableU]HOME the act of living in a place 居住 There was no sign of habitation as far as the eye could see. 放眼望去，了无人烟。 3. [countableC]TBBHOME a house or place to live in 住宅，住处 Examples from the Corpus habitation• The canceled habitation module was designed to house four astronauts.• The Clovis record has stood since the late 1930s, though numerous contenders for evidence of earlier human habitation have arisen.• It stands in a field completely cut off from human habitation.• They assert that the destiny of the soul is related to the activity of the soul during its habitation in the body.• The next habitation was a further ten miles away, at Shiel Bridge.• What are the chances of achieving permanent habitation in space?• The social base for Congress had been the landed elite and the rural habitations they controlled.• Unlike habitation sites, they have little domestic refuse and, unlike cemetery sites, they do not normally contain burials. (1300-1400) Old French Latin, from habitare “to live in a place”, from habere; → HABIT |
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