squat
verb- [intransitive] squat (down)
to sit on your heels with your knees bent up close to your body 蹲坐；蹲 Children were squatting on the floor. 孩子们蹲在地板上。 When we saw them we squatted down behind a wall. 当我们看到他们时，我们蹲在墙后。
- [intransitive, transitive] squat (something)
to live in a building or on land which is not yours, without the owner’s permission 偷住，擅自占用（房子或地方）
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘thrust down with force’): from Old French esquatir ‘flatten’, based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere ‘compel’, from co- ‘together’ + agere ‘drive’ The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th cent.