动 reside，dwell，be ，occupy；名 residence，house，a surname ；

[例句] 久居此地的居民和根基稳固的家族牢牢掌控着权力。 The old-timers and established families clutched the reins of power.

[例句] 但是在某些方面穴居人要比我们聪明得多。 But in some respects cave dwellers were far cleverer than us.

live，reside，dwell，habitancy，bide ；

[例句] 居民们普遍都很贫穷，受教育程度低，居住条件较差。 Residents in general are poor and undereducated, and live in sub-standard housing.

[例句] 1973年他在罗马居住时，他16岁的儿子遭到了绑架。 In 1973, when he lived in Rome, his sixteen-year-old son was kidnapped.

(mediate) between two parties，mediacy ；

[例句] 地板上铺的是草席,只有起居间铺了一块薄薄的破地毯. The floors were covered with matting and the hall laid with a thin rag carpet.

[例句] 他们当时正坐在二楼的起居间里等着吃晚饭. They were in the sitting room on the second floor, waiting for supper.

living in groups，gregarious，social，infest ；

[例句] 这些濒临灭绝的、性情温顺的大型动物属于高度群居的动物。 These endangered gentle giants are highly social animals.

[例句] 雌兽与幼崽显然受益于群居. Females and cubs clearly derive some benefit from living in groups.

settle ，put down roots，take up residence，[生态] ecesis，make one's pitch；

[例句] 这些难民在重新定居之前被安置在意大利的难民营中。 The refugees were put in camps in Italy before being resettled.

[例句] 安妮很愿意去意大利或法国定居。 Anne wouldn't mind going to Italy or France to live.

resident，inhabitant，denizen，dweller，inmate ；

[例句] 原来的居民可能会认不出这个崭新的城镇了。 The new town would have been unrecognisable to the original inhabitants.

[例句] 他们使用武力把土著居民驱逐出了比较肥沃的土地。 They used force to banish the natives from the more fertile land.

live in seclusion，withdraw from society and live in solitude，be a hermit，be buried alive，never go anywhere；

[例句] 格林讲述他有一次去布雷姆纳隐居之处看他的经历。 Green recounts how he once went to see Bremner in his lair.

[例句] 过隐居的生活 to lead the life of a recluse

(of members of a family) live apart，separate without a legal divorce (of husband and wife)，separation ；

[例句] 夫妇俩已经分居了，但是他想要和解。 The couple have separated but he wants a reconciliation.

[例句] 大多数单身父母要么离婚了要么分居了。 Most single parents are either divorced or separated.

live away from home ；

[例句] 这种两面周旋的态度在整个寄居海外运动中极为明显. This dual tug is apparent in the whole movement of expatriation.

[例句] 我朋友寄居在我叔叔家. My friend lodges in my uncle's house.

（当中； 在中间） (mediate) between two parties，be placed in the middle，center，mediacy ；

[例句] 他排行居中的那个儿子5年前意外溺水身亡。 His middle son died in a drowning accident five years back.

[例句] 小标题一律居中. Subheads should be placed in the middle of the column.

move one's residence，migrate，passage，removal，transmigrate ；

[例句] 他们威胁将他驱逐出他的移居国。 They threatened to expel him from his adoptive country.

[例句] 随着移居者南移，人口出现膨胀，至少是暂时性膨胀。 The human population swelled, at least temporarily, as migrants moved south.

unexpectedly，to one's surprise，go so far as to，have the impudence to，actually ；

[例句] 他俩居然结婚了——这让他非常惊讶，因为他们实在是太不一样了。 He was surprised they had married — they had seemed so different.

[例句] 我真蠢，居然被他的胡乱吹嘘给蒙蔽了。 I'd been a fool letting him snow me with his big ideas.

（住在一起） live together，cohabit，a common-law [companionate] marriage，shack up with，cohabitation；

[例句] 她现在与比她小10岁的演员丹尼斯·劳森同居。 She now lives with actor Denis Lawson, 10 years her junior.

[例句] 结婚人数的减少由于同居人数的增加而得以弥补。 The decline in marriage has been offset by a rise in cohabitation.

reside，inhabitation，residence ；

neighbour，neighbor，vicinage，[电影]Vecinos；

[例句] 我们活着是为了什么？不就是给邻居当笑柄，再反过来笑他们。 For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

[例句] 其目的是促使人们结识邻居。 The idea is to encourage people to get to know their neighbours.

inhabit a region (as an ethnic group)，live in a compact community ；

[例句] 纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫是阿塞拜疆境内亚美尼亚人聚居的一块飞地。 Nagorno-Karabakh is an Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan.

[例句] 这是一片鳄鱼聚居的沼泽地. This is a crocodile - infested swamp.

[法] residence，[电影]Habitat；

[例句] 预防犯罪的官员可以登门拜访并就如何使居所更安全向你提出建议。 Crime Prevention Officers can visit your home and suggest ways to make it safer.

[例句] 他们不仅丢掉了工作，还失去了居所、自尊乃至生存的理由。 They have lost not only their jobs, but their homes, their self-respect and even their reason for living.

living alone ；

[例句] 一些独居蜂会把巢筑在田间的地洞里。 Some solitary bees make their nests in burrows in the soil.

[例句] 独居不是邋遢的理由。 Solitude was no excuse for sloppiness.

habitant，inhabitant，[法] occupier，residential occupier，dweller ；

[例句] 现在他最大的危险是未知的水中居住者。 His greatest danger now lies in the unknown denizen of the water.

[例句] 我曾写了一篇文章论及金沙公寓居住者们的反感. I did a story on the condominium dweller's revolt at Golden sands.

forego，foregone，precedence，prior，antedate ；

[例句] 我们在煤炭生产方面居先. We lead in the coal production.