inhabited
inhabited — 形容詞
1. describing a place where people or animals currently make their home, as opposed
有人居住的
有人或動物棲居其中的地方
describing a place where people or animals currently make their home, as opposed to an empty or abandoned one
Only three of the fifty small islands in the bay are still inhabited today.
海灣中五十座小島，如今只剩三座還有人居住。
be inhabited as a stative description of populated places
Tendai discovered that the old farmhouse was inhabited by a family of barn owls.
Tendai 發現那間老農舍住著一家倉鴞。
passive: be inhabited by [animals/people]
The cabin had not been inhabited for almost forty years and smelled of damp wood.
這間小木屋將近四十年沒人居住，散發著潮濕木頭的味道。
Anya grew up in a quiet, sparsely inhabited valley near the Romanian border.
Anya 在羅馬尼亞邊境附近一處安靜、人煙稀少的山谷長大。
The team mapped every inhabited village along the river before the dam was built.
團隊在水壩興建前，把河岸沿線每一個有人居住的村莊都做了測繪。
- uninhabited
direct antonym; no people or animals living there
- deserted
previously inhabited but now empty
- abandoned
deliberately left by former inhabitants
文法句型
an inhabited [place]
be inhabited (by + noun)
用法筆記
Frequently passive (be inhabited by) or modified by an adverb of density (sparsely, densely, thinly). Subject is almost always a place noun: island, village, building, region.
常見錯誤
inhabited — 動詞
1. the past tense and past participle of 'inhabit'; used when describing who or wha
居住；棲息
inhabit 的過去式與過去分詞
the past tense and past participle of 'inhabit'; used when describing who or what once made a particular place their home
Nomadic herders inhabited these grasslands long before the first roads were built.
早在第一條道路出現之前，遊牧的牧民就已在這片草原上居住。
subject + inhabited + place; historical / past use
Christopher learned that monks had inhabited the small stone chapel for over six centuries.
Christopher 得知，這座小石頭教堂曾有僧侶居住超過六百年。
past perfect: had inhabited [place] for [duration]
Giant tortoises once inhabited every beach on the island before the sailors arrived.
在水手登島之前，巨型陸龜曾棲息在這座島嶼的每一片海灘上。
Romi explained that several artists had inhabited the loft above her grandmother's bakery.
Romi 說，她奶奶麵包店樓上的閣樓曾住過好幾位藝術家。
The fishing families who inhabited these coastal villages moved inland after the storm.
曾住在這些海邊村落的漁民家庭，在風暴過後搬到了內陸。
文法句型
[subject] inhabited [place]
用法筆記
Takes a direct object (the place) — never a preposition between 'inhabited' and the place. Subject is typically people, communities, or animals; object is a place noun (island, region, building, forest).