roosts

英 [ruːsts]

美 [ruːsts]

n.  (鸟类的)栖息处
v.  栖息
roost的第三人称单数和复数

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

• Higher up in the crags of the nearby Waterberg mountains, roosts the world's largest colony of Cape vultures.
  附近的瓦特山高处陡崖上，栖息着世界上最大的南非秃鹫群落。
• Spilled water also falls under the roosts rather than into the litter.
  洒出来的水会落到栖息架下而不会进入垫料。
• Sometimes at night, I wished I could be back prowling the forest, spooking sleeping birds from their roosts, stealing clothes from clotheslines, and making merry, rather than en-during page after page of homework and fretting about my peers.
  有时候在晚上，我盼望自己能回到森林中漫游，吓唬睡在窝里的鸟儿，从晾衣绳上偷衣服，找乐子，而不是一页一页地做家庭作业，为我的同学们烦心。
• One of the main starling roosts is on top of the Town Hall.
  市政厅的房顶是欧椋鸟的一个主要栖息处。
• Looking from the spatial angle of view that, it is forms spatial the basic physical conditions, filters the outside influence for the humanity, builds comfortably roosts occupies the place, provides the private dense basic function.
  从空间视角看，它是形成空间的基本物质条件，起到为人类过滤外界影响、营造舒适栖居之地，提供私密性的基本功能。