What does this sentence mean?

P: the meaning of approaching, approaching, is now extended to many meanings, such as approaching a rich man and a rich woman.

Yellowbird craned its neck to peck mantis, but didn't know the projectile was under it.

The yellowbird craned its neck to peck the mantis, but did not know that someone was aiming at himself with a slingshot under the tree. (The projectile is a slingshot bullet)