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.