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Squat   [V N Ted Fire Empty Living Building

英语单词 squat
英美音标 英 [skwɒt] 美 [skwɑːt]
中文释义 v.蹲下;蹲坐;擅自占地
adj.蹲着的;矮胖胖的;低矮的
n.蹲;擅自占用的土地
英语例句 (1) The old man squatted down by the fire.
(2) The savages squat around the fire.
(3) It was five times his squat height, and it would take thirty Unggoy to circumscribe its curved surface.
(4) He squatted in an empty house.
(5) Now they were stopping at a squat red frame station.
(6) A squat pot-bellied figure bustled forward through the gloom.
(7) The two techniques are the split and the squat.
(8) The savages squat around the fire.
(9) She is living in a squat.
中文例句 (1) 老人蹲在炉火旁。
(2) 野人们围火蹲着。
(3) 有他蹲坐五倍高,它的圆形弯曲的表面需要三十个温皋彝才能环抱。
(4) 他擅自在一座空屋居住。
(5) 他们在一座又矮又小的红色木头房子里停住了。
(6) 一位矮矮胖胖、大腹便便的人影从阴暗处奔了出来。
(7) 这两种技术是箭步式和下蹲式。
(8) 野人们围火蹲着。
(9) 她住在私占的屋子里。
vocabulary简明 If you crouch down very low and sit on your heels, you squat. If you have to talk to a small child, you might have to squat to talk face-to-face.
vocabulary扩展 The verb squat also means to illegally occupy a building — especially to live in it. If you own vacant property, you need to be careful that someone doesn't decide to squat in the empty house. As an adjective, squat describes someone who is very short and thick. In the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the dwarfs are depicted as squat little men.
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]蹲;蹲坐 If you squat, you lower yourself towards the ground, balancing on your feet with your legs bent.
  [V]
  [V on n]
  [V P]
  [V P prep]
  [a N]
  • He squatted, grunting at the pain in his knees...

    他蹲在那儿,双膝的伤痛得他直哼哼。

  • We squatted beside the pool and watched the diver sink slowly down...

    我们蹲在水池旁,看着潜水者慢慢沉下水。

  • He came over and squatted on his heels, looking up at the boys.

    他走过来,蹲下身,抬头看着这些男孩。

  • Squat down means the same as squat .squat down同squat
    • Albert squatted down and examined it...

      阿尔伯特蹲下来仔细查看它。

    • She had squatted down on her heels.

      她蹲下身。

  • Squat is also a noun.
    • He bent to a squat and gathered the puppies on his lap.

      他弯腰蹲下,把小狗们都抱到自己腿上。

2
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]矮胖的;短粗的 If you describe someone or something as squat, you mean they are short and thick, usually in an unattractive way.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • Eddie was a short squat fellow in his forties with thinning hair.

    埃迪四十多岁,矮矮胖胖的,头发日渐稀疏。

  • ...squat stone houses.

    矮墩墩的石马

3
[VERB 动词]擅自占用(闲置房屋或土地) People who squat occupy an unused building or unused land without having a legal right to do so.
  [V]
  [V n]
  • You can't simply wander around squatting on other people's property...

    你不能这样到处乱窜,擅自占用别人的地产。

  • They earn their living by squatting the land and sharecropping.

    他们靠擅自占用土地,按种地的收益分成为生。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]被擅自占住的空房 A squat is an empty building that people are living in illegally, without paying any rent or any property tax.
  • After returning from Paris, David moved to a squat in Brixton...

    从巴黎回来后,戴维搬进了布里克斯顿的一座空房里住下了。

  • Thomas now faces eviction from his squat.

    托马斯现在要被从他占住的房子里驱赶出来。

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