Picture a flat with the lights on: whoever is inside right now is the occupant. The word does not ask whether they own it or love it — only that they are the one filling that space.
可以想成：一戶亮著燈的房子，此刻裡面的人就是 occupant。這個字不問他是不是屋主、住得開不開心，只問「現在佔著這個空間的是誰」。因為只描述位置不描述關係，它的口吻中性而正式，常出現在公文、保險和新聞報導裡。
原始詞典資料4 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。
occupantnoun/ˈɒk.jʊ.pənt/
- 1
A person who occupies an office or a position.
- I cannot say the same of the current occupant of the position
- occupant of the Oval Office
- 2
A person who occupies a place.
- 3
A person who occupies a place.
- 4
The owner or tenant of a property.
- I looked over to the Radley Place, expecting to see its phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing. The swing was empty.
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。