| 单词 | dwell |
| 释义 | dwellWord family noundwellerdwellingverbdwell dwell /dwel/ ●○○ verb (past tensepst and past participlepp dwelt /dwelt/ or dwelled) [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] 1 LIVE SOMEWHERE literary to live in a particular place 〔在某一地方〕居住 They dwelt in the forest. 他们住在森林里。 2 dwell on/upon something phrasal verbphr v THINK ABOUTto think or talk for too long about something, especially something unpleasant 老是想着[详述，唠叨]某事〔尤指令人不快之事〕 That is not a subject I want to dwell on. 那不是我愿意多谈的话题。 Examples from the Corpus dwell on/upon • I have dwelt on it at some length because I believe the opposite to be the case.• Maybe it was better not to dwell on it, he decided.• The episode dwelling on jurist Robert Bork succeeded, for example, despite dominance by Al Franken and Sen.• I was dwelling on negative stuff.• He dwelt on the figure gratefully.• Ruth let her eyes dwell on the forest.• It is traditional for politicians to dwell on the negative.• We need not dwell on the sexist nature of such myths. Examples from the Corpus dwell• The Lord in his glory had actually come to dwell amongst his people.• Each country has its own geography where the spirit dwells and where physical force can never conquer even an inch of ground.• I am suspicious of gods who dwell benignly in heavens, immutable and supreme.• A woodsman and his family dwelt in the middle of the forest.• He had certainly never bothered to dwell much before on what the moon saw as it climbed.• But in her writing and speeches Shaughnessy did not dwell on this problem; perhaps that was a necessary part of salesmanship.• They force the reader to slow down, to dwell or brood on what is happening. Old English dwellan |
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