Squatter
['skwɒtə] or ['skwɑtɚ]
解释:
(noun.) someone who settles on land without right or title.
(noun.) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it.
约翰娜编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.
(n.) See Squat snipe, under Squat.
埃弗雷特编辑
解释:
v.i. to plunge through water.
整理:瓦莱丽
例句:
- Here and there old trees had been felled the autumn before; or a squatter's roughly-built and decaying cottage had disappeared. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Virginia squatters) added, we select the black members of a litter for raising, as they alone have a good chance of living. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Among all these squatters and folks of the road the reddleman continually found himself; yet he was not of them. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
校对:奥斯瓦德