| 词汇 | denizen |
| 释义 | denizen noun[ C ] literaryuk /ˈden.ɪ.zən/ us /ˈden.ə.zən/ an animal, plant, or person that lives in or is often in a particular place: （特定地区的）居民，常住者，动物，植物 denizen ofDeer and squirrels are among the denizens of the forest.鹿和松鼠是森林地带的常见动物。 Synonyms city, town, cave, etc. dweller inhabitant People who live or settle somewhere asylum seeker boarder brain drain city slicker co-resident Georgian guest worker habitant illegal alien illegal immigrant lodger Orcadian outflow overspill repeople returnee squatter villager welcome wagon year-rounder Examples of denizendenizen The department employed buggy drivers and route riders to deliver the mail directly to the homes of rural denizens. The denizen could be seen as being granted exactly that package, minus a couple of important entitlements. An alien becomes a denizen by being ' infranchised ', which literally means being made free or given freedoms. One useful connotation of this technical sense of ' denizen ' was that it implied freedom. We are allowed to give ear to the building's denizens, the echoes of whose voices sculpt our movement through space. In and of itself, however, the material existence and output of small-scale enter prises and the lives of their denizens is insufficient to either explain or maintain this role. In particular, as bearers and denizens of a social memory, the missionary artifacts suggest ways of thinking about what happens, through time, to the elements of an individual memory. Wanamaker pressed diligently for the expansion of rural deliver y, knowing that rural denizens would support other department initiatives once they had a taste of its best services. Quite a number of questions were asked by the denizens of another place about metrication, but with very little success. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The most important point is surely the inhabiting of the highlands and uplands by the human denizens thereof and not some obscure corncrake. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Or does it mean the denizens of some building who issue instructions, and more frequently embargos, from time to time? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us remember that nature provides no beds for its denizens to die in. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that it is along these lines that the real salvation of the denizens of our prisons will be found. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The denizens of the fish and chip shop have become the aristocrats of the high seas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He spoke about the "denizens of the rat-runs" of the marketing system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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