| 词汇 | squatting |
| 释义 | squatting present participle ofsquat Examples of squattingsquatting State officials objected to both land sales and squatting as development strategies because they believed that such activities led to land fragmentation and degradation. The politics of purchase area farmers intersected with national politics in important ways that promoted both land sales and squatting. However, squatting, leg-muscle pumping (tip-toeing), abdominal contractions and bending forwards may be less acceptable to older patients with gait imbalance. These manoeuvres include squatting, isometric thigh contraction, leg crossing, raised toe walking and abdominal muscle contraction carried out before or immediately after posture change. The squatting literature typically focuses on urban areas. To be sure, immigrants would have preferred to have their own plots, but squatting did allow families some independence. Although the government had a time-honored policy against squatting, it was clearly unenforceable. Squatting families were only a fraction of the families moving in search of land during the mid-1940s and 1950s. The murmur may be soft, and is best heard with the patient squatting. Squatting was also a successful strategy for both farm development and squatting families. It became the starting point for the squatting of empty houses. About 44 per cent had long-term leases of government lands, 20 per cent had unsecured short-term leases and another 10 per cent were squatting. There were benefits to squatting families as well. A three-year-old female child was admitted with a history of cyanotic spells and squatting episodes since childhood. Besides, if the big institutions won't put on their plays, what's to stop young writers squatting in empty buildings and creating new spaces? 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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