喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/居民

    正式One of the people who live in a particular place, such as a town, a city, or an area of a country.

    示範例句 · Example

    Taipei is a city of more than two million inhabitants.

    逐字台北是一座有超過兩百萬居民的城市。

    inhabitant 可以想成是從動詞 inhabit（住在某個地方）長出來的：字尾 -ant 就是「做這件事的人」，像 assistant（幫忙的人）、servant（服務的人），所以 inhabitant 就是「住在那裡的其中一個人」。注意它算的是「一個一個的人」，所以幾乎都用複數、而且旁邊常有數字：a city of six million inhabitants（一座有六百萬居民的城市）。它偏書面：課本、統計、介紹一個地方的文章最常見；平常講話會說 the people who live here、the locals 或 residents。

    常見搭配

    • the inhabitants of somewhere

      某地的居民

      the people who live in a named place

      The inhabitants of the valley grow tea on the hillsides.

    • local inhabitants

      當地居民

      the people who live in that particular area

      The local inhabitants showed us the shortest way to the lake.

    • a town of X inhabitants

      一座有多少居民的城鎮

      a town whose people add up to that number

      It is a quiet town of about five thousand inhabitants.

    • the early inhabitants

      早期的居民

      the people who lived there long ago

      The early inhabitants of the island fished and grew rice.

    • the oldest inhabitant

      最年長的居民

      the person who has lived there longer than anyone else

      At ninety-two, Mrs Lin is the oldest inhabitant of the village.

    • per 10,000 inhabitants

      每一萬名居民

      for each group of ten thousand people who live there

      The report counts how many libraries there are per 10,000 inhabitants.

core核心畫面

You can think of it as someone counted as one of the people who live in a place — not a visitor passing through, but part of the population that belongs to that town, island, or region.

把一個地方的人「算進去」的那個人。想像有人在數一座小鎮上住著多少人——住在這裡、日子在這裡過的，一個一個被算進總數，而路過的旅客不算。inhabitant 指的就是被算進去的其中一個。這個字的重點不是「他家在哪裡」，而是「他屬於這塊地方的人口」，所以它常常跟數字一起出現：a town of 20,000 inhabitants。它偏中性、偏書面，帶點從外面觀察、清點的距離感，跟你自己說 I live here 的親近語氣不同。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

複數 inhabitants

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

inhabitantnoun/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/

  • 1

    Someone or thing who lives in a place.

    • I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.
    • It was obvious to the inhabitants of the small coastal town of Bridport that in the midst of these squabbles their need for a railway was going to be overlooked, and they decided to take the matter into their own hands.
  • 2

    A possible value for a type.

    • One way to observe this connection with mathematics is by mapping each type to its cardinality, a count of the inhabitants of that type.

inhabitantadj/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/

  • 1

    resident

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。