squat

Word family

squat1 /skɒwt $ skwɑːt/ verb (squatted, squatting) [intransitiveI]

SITto sit with your knees bent under you and your bottom just off the ground, balancing on your feet 蹲；蹲坐

squat down

He squatted down beside the little girl.

他在小女孩身边蹲了下来。

► see thesaurus at sit →5 see picture at 见图 crouch, gym

2. LIVE SOMEWHEREto live in a building or on a piece of land without permission and without paying rent 擅自占用建筑物[空地]

Examples from the Corpus

squat• People squatted around the fire in small groups• A little boy was squatting at the edge of the pool.• He squatted down beside me and offered me a cigarette.• Tuan Ti Fo squatted, his legs folded under him, watching the boy.• Thousands of families are still squatting in war-damaged buildings.• It squatted incongruously among the trees, looking like a visitor from another planet.• Blue Mooney squatted next to a pink-and-white Pontiac as he stabbed the ice pick into the fourth tire.• Finally he broke away and went and squatted on his haunches by the stream.• The trail was half lost in fog, the overcast squatted on the mountain.

squat2 adjectiveadj

LOWSHORT PERSONshort and thick or low and wide, especially in a way which is not attractive 矮胖的；粗矮的

squat stone cottages

矮而宽的小石屋

a squat little old man

一个矮胖的小老头

Examples from the Corpus

squat• The brown buildings were old and squat.• Comanche tipis were more squat and conical.• a shabby, squat, balding man in an old raincoat• Ravi-no stood looking, his squat body immensely still.• And now this desperate damage: the squat compactness unhinged, made powerless.• The floor was covered in thick creamy carpet on which stood squat, natural leather chairs.• During the greater part of each contest, the two are settled in a squat position, measuring each other.• He came at last to Kinton, rounded the squat, square-towered church and the main street of the village stretched before him.• The cook was short and squat, with thick eyebrows and a slight moustache.

squat3 noun

1. SIT[countableC] a squatting position 蹲坐；蹲姿

2 [countableC] British EnglishBrELIVE SOMEWHERE a house that people are living in without permission and without paying rent 被擅自占用的房子

She lives in a squat in Camden.

她在卡姆登私占了一间房子住着。

3 [uncountableU] American EnglishAmE informal nothing, or nearly nothing. Squat is often used in negative sentences for emphasis 没有，几乎没有〔常用于否定句中以示强调〕

He had a job that paid him squat.

他有一份几乎不赚什么钱的工作。

You don’t know squat about it.

你对此毫不知情。

Examples from the Corpus

squat• He was in that terrible state of lumbar pain where mobility involves a slow ambulatory squat.• Most of them have moved off since they broke the squat.• The rubber band workout group improved 26 percent in the squat and 17 percent in the shoulder press.

From Longman Business Dictionary