dweller

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dwel·ler /ˈdwelə $ -ər/ noun [countableC]

city/town/cave etc dweller LIVE SOMEWHEREa person or animal that lives in a particular place 居住在城裏/鎮上/洞穴中等的人[動物]

City dwellers suffer higher pollution levels.

城市居民承受的污染程度更嚴重。

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city/town/cave etc dweller• Added to this is the vibration caused by heavy goods vehicles and the annoyance of air traffic suffered by all city dwellers.• Unlike many town dwellers, farmers can at least eat well.• This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller.• It is the dilemma of city dwellers, of all those refugees from the past in search of the future.• Poverty has become persistent, and apparently self-reinforcing, for millions of city dwellers, most of them black or Hispanic.• Most shoppers know that only cave dwellers would pay the list price for electronics goods, for example.• Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller.• But then, city dwellers have never been long on modesty.

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dweller• Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller.• It's just hard for your Earth dwellers to conjure these all out of a hat in the midst of frustration.• Slum dwellers would filter through into better stock, or be rehoused by local authorities in new estates.• Similarly, an amendment carried in November 1917 did much to nullify the reduction of plural voting rights for town dwellers.• Furthermore, the causes of fuelwood scarcity must seem remote and diffuse to the average urban dweller.• Census takers historically have undercounted urban dwellers, particularly blacks and ethnic minorities, they argued.• Urban dwellers might find that the bright city lights will wash out the faintly glowing comet tail.

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