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单词 perched
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Examplesofperched

perched

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 myselfperchedon her pink bedspread, earnestly listening to a story about two birds.
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After each bout theyperchedon a branch and remained silent, vocalizing, or chasing intruders.
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These shallow wells are apparently made possible by the presence ofperchedwater tables that rest on impermeable geologic strata.
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Now the man isperchedprecariously on the top of his chimney - the only bit of his house above the raging torrent.
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Some of the children sat firmly down on the tiny chair, whereas othersperchedgingerly on top.
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That has left the antinomiansperchedlargely on the fringe, effectively isolated by those who won the debates.
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The bay was essentially open water, save for several grounded icebergs (where birds were oftenperched).
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In the underlying tension between religion and science, philosophy wasperchedambiguously on both sides of the divide.
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For each bird the habitat in which it was first encountered (eitherperchedor flying) was recorded.
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At the far end, where the windows must have been, there were bass enclosures like fortresses on which midranges, trebles and supertreblesperchedlike turrets.
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To hang, head down in order to reach food not obtainable by any otherperchedposition.
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All birds seen or heard,perchedor flying under the canopy were recorded.
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Individuals of these species arrived on an infested tree andperchedon the upper branches.
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Aperchedlake developed in the resultant topography coeval with the progressive marine transgression of lower areas.
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Florida's building, for example, isperchedin a peninsula formed by two branches in the lower right of the tree.
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