roosting

英 [ˈruːstɪŋ]

美 [ˈruːstɪŋ]

v.  栖息
roost的现在分词

COCA.41624

柯林斯词典

• (鸟类或蝙蝠的)栖息处，窝
  Aroostis a place where birds or bats rest or sleep.
• VERB 栖息
  When birds or batsroostsomewhere, they rest or sleep there.
  1. The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs.
     孔雀栖息在附近的灌木丛里。
• PHRASE 自食苦果;得到惩罚;遭到报应
  If bad or wrong things that someone has done in the pasthave come home to roost, or if theirchickens have come home to roost, they are now experiencing the unpleasant effects of these actions.
  1. Appeasement has come home to roost...
     绥靖政策的恶果已经显现出来了。
  2. Politicians can fool some people some of the time, but in the end, the chickens will come home to roost.
     政客们有时能够愚弄一些人，但最终他们都会自食恶果。
• PHRASE 当家;作主;主宰;领导
  If you say that someonerules the roostin a particular place, you mean that they have control and authority over the people there.
  1. Today the country's nationalists rule the roost and hand out the jobs.
     现今，这个国家由民族主义者掌权并分派工作。

双语例句

• Once, a flock of birds flew past overhead, on their way to some hidden roosting place, uttering as they flew a clear bell-like chirp;
  有一次，一群鸟儿从我们头顶飞过。啾啾唧唧地清脆得像铃声一样叫着归巢；
• The explosion scattered a flock of birds roosting in the trees.
  爆炸声把树上的鸟惊飞了。
• The street out here is full of people, and others are roosting on the fences, waiting to get a glimpse of you.
  外面街上站满了人，还有许多人骑在栅栏，大家都在等着要瞧你一眼。
• This heron mixed with little egrets ( Egretta garzetta) and other species of egrets or herons, wading and feeding in water or roosting on the islet.
  该白脸鹭混杂于白鹭（Egrettagarzetta）等鹭类群体内，涉水觅食或栖息于岸上。
• We have visited Nam Sang Wai again recently, the second fire on1st Jan is very close to a known roosting site for Great Cormorants.
  我们近日再到访南生围视察，发现一月一日山火非常接近一片鸬鹚夜栖的林木。
• The number of crows roosting into the city showed a seasonal change and the most was estimated for 10?
  乌鸦入城夜宿的高峰期为最寒冷的2~3月份，估计数量达10000只。
• As you say, creditors are roosting in trees like vultures waiting to swoop down on anything valuable. In the absence of vultures, they have been reduced to rigging their towers with solar reflectors to shrivel the corpses.
  你晓得，那些债主象兀鹰一般歇在树枝上，伺机对任何有价值的东西飞扑下来。如果没有兀鹫的话，帕西人就不得不在高塔上装备太阳反射装置来把死尸照枯。
• His advice was that the location of the house and garden were such that bad spirits and negative influences were "roosting" in the plants in the garden.
  风水先生说房子和花园的方位不佳，凶灵和阴气会“附身”在花园的植物上。
• The results showed that Anser indicus usually flied away from the roosting area at 7:30 am, and came back from the main activity area at 7:30 pm.
  结果表明：斑头雁通常是早上730后飞离夜栖地，傍晚1930以后从主要活动地飞回夜栖地。
• Enormous open windows with heavy iron bars made the high and barren room the roosting place of hundreds of pigeons.
  沉重的铁条嵌在巨大的窗户上，其间出入的上百只鸽子把这个高处不胜寒的地方当成了他们惬意的居所。