Squatter
['skwɒtə] or ['skwɑtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(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.
约翰娜編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
埃弗雷特編輯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to plunge through water.
整理:瓦莱丽
例句/造句/用法:
- Here and there old trees had been felled the autumn before; or a squatter's roughly-built and decaying cottage had disappeared. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Virginia squatters) added, we select the black members of a litter for raising, as they alone have a good chance of living. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Among all these squatters and folks of the road the reddleman continually found himself; yet he was not of them. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
校對:奥斯瓦德