dwell

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++dwell /dwel/ ●○○ verb (past tense and past participle dwelt /dwelt/ or dwelled) [intransitive always + adverb/preposition]  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 verb 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。→ See Verb table

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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.Origin dwell Old English dwellan

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place in particular a Corpus to live

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dwell /dwel/ verb (past tense and past participle dwelt /dwelt/ or dwelled) [intransitive always + adverb/preposition]literary to live in a particular place:
    They dwelt in the forest.
     
dwell on/upon something phrasal verb
  to think or talk for too long about something, especially something unpleasant:
    That is not a subject I want to dwell on.

dwellBrE /dwel/ 🔊NAmE /dwel/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they dwell BrE /dwel/ 🔊 NAmE /dwel/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it dwells BrE /dwelz/ 🔊 NAmE /dwelz/ 🔊past simple dwelt BrE /dwelt/ 🔊 NAmE /dwelt/ 🔊past participle dwelt BrE /dwelt/ 🔊 NAmE /dwelt/ 🔊past simple dwelled BrE /dweld/ 🔊 NAmE /dweld/ 🔊past participle dwelled BrE /dweld/ 🔊 NAmE /dweld/ 🔊 -ing form dwelling BrE /ˈdwelɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdwelɪŋ/ 🔊 [intransitive] + adv./prep. (formal or literary) to live somewhere 居住；栖身◆For ten years she dwelled among the nomads of North America. 她在北美游牧民中生活了十年。🔊🔊 ●ˈdwell on/upon sthto think or talk a lot about sth, especially sth it would be better to forget 老是想着，唠叨（尤指最好应忘记的事）◆So you made a mistake, but there's no need to dwell on it. 你是错了，不过不必老是想着这事儿。🔊🔊to look at sth for a long time 细看；凝视