live，inhabit，lodge和dwell都可以表示「居住」的意思，但內涵完全不同。
1. live表示「居住」的意思，強調「在具體的某地居住、過日子」
The only places I’d ever lived had been apartments in Manhattan，and what astonished me about Levittown was the tranquility.
我居住過的地方向來僅限於曼哈頓的公寓住宅，因此萊維敦鎮最令我驚嘆之處就是它的寧靜。
Yegor Gaidar，the former Russian prime minister，was one of very few Russian men of power who lived very modestly until the end of his days，not having amassed a personal fortune.
俄羅斯前總理葉戈爾·蓋達爾是俄羅斯當權者中為數不多的畢生過著簡樸生活的人之一，沒有積攢下什麼個人財產。
2. inhabit雖然也可以表示「居住」的意思，但更強調「人或動物居住在某個地區並已適應某種特殊環境」
Pollution is perhaps one of the greatest risks to the Chinese White Dolphins that inhabit the area.
汙染可能是在這個區域棲息著的中華白鰭豚最大的威脅。
Beneath the surface of the ocean，there lies a hidden world inhabited by plants and animals we rarely see.
在海平面的下面，有一個被隱藏的世界，那裡居住著我們很少能看到的動植物。
Sadly，we inhabit a world in which yesterday is usually deemed too late.
很遺憾，我們居住在一個急功近利的世界。
3. lodge強調「短時間或臨時住宿」，通常指在旅館或親戚朋友家暫住；此外，lodge還可以表示「提出報告或抗議」
They shall lodge at the inn for three nights.
他們要在這個旅館短住3宿。
We lodged and boarded together；he counseled me as a father，having a sincere regard for me. – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
我們一塊吃住，他像父輩那樣諄諄囑咐我，真誠關心我。-《富蘭克林自傳》
The Federation of Small Business then lodged a complaint，saying that people should not be encouraged to stay at home with a cold.
隨後小企業聯合會提出了投訴，他們說不應該鼓勵人們因為感冒而在家休息。
4. dwell也可以表示「居住」的意思，但請注意，dwell多用於詩歌等高雅文字之中；與介詞on或upon搭配，表示「將某種情感集中於…
A great number of water fowls dwell on the island.
許多水鳥在島上棲息。
Sometimes his mind would dwell on the horrors he had been through.
有時，他會回想起自己經歷過的恐怖往事
It is natural that I dwell rather upon his successes than upon his failures.
我自然應詳述他的種種成功，而不是他的種種失敗。