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

• More recently, their numbers have fallen because of the widespread loss of wild wetland habitats needed for feeding, nesting, and roosting.
  最近，由于其栖息的湿地大面积地消失，其数量又一次急剧下降。
• 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。
• 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
• This paper describes experiments on treating arsenic bearing dust resulted in rotary roosting kiln.
  介绍了处理回转窑焙烧含砷物料所产烟尘的试验研究。
• 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
• 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。
• I am not sure how large the impact is the fire damage on roosting cormorants, but seems cormorants do not like the burnt areas much.
  暂时未清楚对它们实际影响有多大，不过发现似乎它们不太喜欢烧过的地方。
• 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 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。
• 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。