| 词汇 | perched |
| 释义 | perched past simple and past participle ofperch perch verb uk /pɜːtʃ/ us /pɝːtʃ/ perch in, on, etc. something to sit on or near the edge of something: 坐在…（的边缘）上;栖息于;停留于 We perched on bar stools and had a beer.我们坐在酒吧高凳上，喝了一杯啤酒。 [ I or T ] to be in a high position or in a position near the edge of something, or to put something in this position: （使）位于高处（或…的边缘）;（使）栖息在高处（或…的边缘） The village is perched on top of a high hill.村子坐落在一个高山顶上。 Animal (non-human) behaviour accidental apex predator beg behave behaviour behavioural science claw fawn gambol homing housebroken migrate monogamous monogamously monogamy murmuration nocturnal ravening scent soar You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Placing and positioning an object Sitting and standing Examples of perchedperched In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. I see myself perched on her pink bedspread, earnestly listening to a story about two birds. After each bout they perched on a branch and remained silent, vocalizing, or chasing intruders. These shallow wells are apparently made possible by the presence of perched water tables that rest on impermeable geologic strata. Now the man is perched precariously on the top of his chimney - the only bit of his house above the raging torrent. Some of the children sat firmly down on the tiny chair, whereas others perched gingerly on top. That has left the antinomians perched largely on the fringe, effectively isolated by those who won the debates. The bay was essentially open water, save for several grounded icebergs (where birds were often perched). In the underlying tension between religion and science, philosophy was perched ambiguously on both sides of the divide. For each bird the habitat in which it was first encountered (either perched or flying) was recorded. At the far end, where the windows must have been, there were bass enclosures like fortresses on which midranges, trebles and supertrebles perched like turrets. To hang, head down in order to reach food not obtainable by any other perched position. All birds seen or heard, perched or flying under the canopy were recorded. Individuals of these species arrived on an infested tree and perched on the upper branches. A perched lake developed in the resultant topography coeval with the progressive marine transgression of lower areas. Florida's building, for example, is perched in a peninsula formed by two branches in the lower right of the tree. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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