perch
perch 英 [pɜ:tʃ] 美 [pɜrtʃ]
n. 鲈鱼; 高位；栖木；杆 vt. 栖息；就位；位于；使坐落于 vi. 栖息；就位；位于
进行时:perching 过去式:perched 过去分词:perched 第三人称单数:perches 名词复数:perches
- A perch is a temporary resting place. In the middle of climbing a tree, you might find a good perch on a high branch. Bet some birds will be perching there too.
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- n. 鲈鱼; 高位；栖木；杆
- vt. 栖息；就位；位于；使坐落于
- vi. 栖息；就位；位于
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1. The birds like to fly and perch on rooftops, but none have flown away.
火鸡喜欢飞，喜欢在房顶栖息，但没有一只飞走。
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2. This home sits on its perch among the bird themed streets of the Hollywood Hills overlooking Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
这家坐落在以鸟类为主题的栖木的街头上，也就是好莱坞日落大道，可以俯瞰洛杉矶。
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3. Now that I know where they are—their silhouettes are often visible through the leaves they perch upon—I can spot them quickly.
既然我知道了它们在哪儿——它们的身影经常通过它们栖息的叶子看到——我就能很快地发现它们。
- perch (n.1) "where a bird rests," late 13c., originally only "a pole, rod, stick, stake," from Old French perche "unit of linear measurement" (5.5 yards), also "measuring rod, pole, bar" used to measure this length (13c.), from Latin pertica "pole, long staff, measuring rod," related to Oscan perek "pole," Umbrian perkaf "twigs, rods." Meaning "a bar fixed horizontally for a hawk or tame bird to rest on" is attested from late 14c.; this led to general sense of "any thing that any bird alights or rests on" (late 15c.). Figurative sense of "an elevated or secure position" is recorded from 1520s. The "land-measuring rod" sense also was in Middle English (c. 1200), hence surviving meaning "measure of land equal to a square lineal perch" (usually 160 to the acre), mid-15c.
- perch (n.2) "spiny-finned freshwater fish," c. 1300, from Old French perche, from Latin perca "perch," from Greek perke "a perch," from PIE root *perk- "speckled, spotted" (source also of Sanskrit prsnih "speckled, variegated;" Greek perknos "dark-colored," perkazein "to become dark"), typically in names of animals.
- perch (v.) "to roost," late 14c., from Old French perchier "to sit on a perch" (of a bird), from perche (n.) (see perch (n.1)). Related: Perched; perching.
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