perching的中文翻譯是什麼意思

VERB坐在…邊緣；坐在…頂端

If you perch on something, you sit down lightly on the very edge or tip of it.

• He lit a cigarette and perched on the corner of the desk...

  他點了一根菸，坐在桌角上。

• He perched himself on the side of the bed.

  他坐在床沿上。

VERB在…頂部；在…邊緣

To perch somewhere means to be on the top or edge of something.

• ...the vast slums that perch precariously on top of the hills around which the city was built.

  坐落在城市周圍的山峰上、搖搖欲墜的貧民窟

VERB把…置於；使立穩於…的邊緣（或頂部）

If you perch something on something else, you put or balance it on the top or edge of that thing.

• The builders have perched a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.

  建築工人在8根細柱上架起輕巧的混凝土穹頂。

VERB（鳥）棲息，停留

When a bird perches on something such as a branch or a wall, it lands on it and stands there.

• A blackbird flew down and perched on the parapet outside his window.

  一隻烏鶇飛下來，停在他窗外的矮牆上。

N-COUNT（鳥的）棲木，棲枝

A perch is a short rod for a bird to stand on.

N-COUNT高位，高處

You can refer to a high place where someone is sitting as their perch .

PHRASE趕下神壇

If someone is knocked off their perch, they are no longer admired or no longer thought of as important or clever.

• There is a trend for knocking public-school headmasters and headmistresses off their perches.

  現在有一種推翻公立學校校長權威性的趨勢。

N-COUNT鱸魚；河鱸

A perch is an edible fish. There are several kinds of perch.