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

• Observation on Roosting Rhythm of Passer montanus in Chengdu Urban Districts
  成都市区麻雀夜宿规律初步观察
• 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。
• Hawk, Man and Nature& On the writing of "animal poems" by Ted Hughes from Hawk Roosting
  鹰人自然&从《鹰之栖息》看泰德休斯的动物诗歌创作
• Zebra Doves roost at night high in trees and seem particularly fond of roosting in coconut palms.
  斑马鸽栖树高在夜间，似乎特别喜欢椰子棕榈的栖研究。
• Roosting behavior and factors affecting roost-site used by reeve's pheasant ( syrmaticus reevesii) in winter
  白冠长尾雉冬季夜栖行为与夜栖地利用影响因子的研究
• 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。
• Cormorant foraging flocks directly flew among foraging areas, resting site, and roosting site but usually flew along coast if their path cuts land.
  鸬鹚出海后的飞行路径，应是连接觅食区域、休息区域、及夜栖区域之间的最短距离，但若会切到陆地，则常会沿海岸迂回前进。
• 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。
• His masterpiece, Hawk Roosting, thoroughly reveals such creative style. By the description of a series of special images of animals, Hughes aims at making people think about the relationships between animals, man and nature.
  休斯的代表作《鹰之栖息》通过对一系列动物的特殊形象的描写，旨在引发人们对动物、人与自然关系的深入思考。
• 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。