【cohabit】 - A-level备考词汇

cohabit

UK:  [kəʊ'hæbɪt]

US:  [ˌkoʊˈhæbit]

第三人称单数：cohabits  现在分词：cohabiting  过去式：cohabited  

v.

1.〈正式〉同居;姘居

1 . The new financial environment it created allowed banks and investment banks to cohabit, something that had not been allowed since 1933.
由此产生的新金融环境准许银行和投资银行并存，而这种情况是自1933年后一直被禁止的。

2 . In the beginning, in a far distant past of Earth history, humans and animals used to cohabit very lovingly and peacefully.
开元时期，在地球历史上的遥远过去，人类和动物原本是同居一起，非常友好与和平。

3 . Before getting married or starting to cohabit, they do an average of seven hours' housework a week.
男性在结婚或同居之前，平均每周做7个小时的家务活；

4 . A democratic government would have to cohabit with the army and maybe also with a (downsized) President Musharraf.
新成立的民主政府需要学会如何与军方，或许和（权力减少的）穆沙拉夫总统一同执政。

5 . the solution is to break banks into functional units, so that merger experts, market makers, and proprietary traders no longer cohabit.
解决办法是将投行依照职能分拆，这样并购专家、做市商和自营交易员就不再同属于一家银行。