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habitable

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++hab·it·a·ble /ˈhæbətəbəl/ adjective  LIVE SOMEWHEREgood enough for people to live in 适宜居住的 It would cost a fortune to make the place habitable. 要想让这个地方可以住人得花一大笔钱。
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habitableThere are already plans to renovate the buildings and make them habitable.As soon as the new building's habitable.Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable.The villas themselves looked better than before, deserted except for the few that were privately owned and still habitable.There are so many planets out there, some of them habitable.Many inner cities that were once treated as war zones have become pleasant and habitable again.This process of constructing habitable environments on Mars can be begun at once.They have washed up on a shingle strand beside a lonely and barely habitable estancia.Japan is mostly mountainous and has a only a relatively narrow strip of habitable land along the coasts.Two rooms are habitable, with a battered fridge, bedding, sofa, and gas-stove.
hab·it·a·ble adjectiveChineseSyllable
in to for people live Corpus enough good


habitable
habitable /ˈhæbətəbəl, ˈhæbɪtəbəl/ adjective
good enough for people to live in:
    It would cost a fortune to make the place habitable.


hab·it·ableBrE /ˈhæbɪtəbl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhæbɪtəbl/ 🔊 adjectivesuitable for people to live in 适合居住的The house should be habitable by the new year. 房子到新年时应该就可以住进去了。🔊🔊 OPP uninhabitable