squatter
squatter 英 [ˈskwɒtə(r)] 美 [ˈskwɑtə(r)]
n. 蹲着的人 vi. 涉水而过
名词复数:squatters
- A squatter is someone who lives on unoccupied land or in a vacant building without permission from the owner.
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- n. 蹲着的人
- vi. 涉水而过
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1. They show a Hong Kong so far removed from what we know today; a place struggling with its sway of refugees, its squatter shacks and its early public housing.
“它们向我们展示了一个今天远不知道的香港——一个难民如潮般涌入“笼屋”和早期公屋中，并且苦苦挣扎的地方。”
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2. The United Nations did extensive field research and flipped from seeing squatter cities as the world's great problem to realizing these slums are actually the world's great solution to poverty.
联合国进行了广泛的实地调查，从把寮屋城区看作世界上最大的问题，转而认识到这些贫民窟实际上是世界上解决贫困问题的最好方案。
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3. A loophole for this nature reserve allows cacao haciendas to dot the forest, near villages populated by descendants of African slaves and near poor migrants who live in squatter villages in the park.
为了钻空子获取这种天然资源，可可种植园散布在森林各处，或是位于非裔奴隶后代聚居的村庄附近，或是位于寮屋移民聚居的公园附近。
- squatter (n.) "settler who occupies land without legal title," 1788, agent noun from squat (v.); in reference to paupers or homeless people in uninhabited buildings, it is recorded from 1880.
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