roost 是什么意思

音标：[ ru:st ]

过去式:roosted 过去分词:roosted 名词复数:roosts 现在分词:roosting

中文翻译与英英解释

n.
1.栖架；鸡埘，鸡棚，鸡舍；同栖的一群家禽。
2.栖息处；卧室；床；〔口语〕旅舍。
短语和例子
at roost 歇着；睡着。 come home to roost 还归原主；得到恶报 (Curses come home to roost. 害人反害己)。 go to roost 去歇；去睡。 rule the roost 当家，作主；跋扈，称雄，居首。
vi.
栖息；进窝；〔美国〕歇着；睡着；投宿；过夜；〔口语〕就座，坐下。
vt.
为…设置栖息处，把…送去栖息。

	a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
	a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds

	settle down or stay, as if on a roost
	sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the tree" 同义词：perch, rest,

例句与用法

	1.	Now the chickens were coming home to roost . 这不，报应就在眼前。
	2.	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。
	3.	As you say, creditors are roosting in trees like vultures waiting to swoop down on anything valuable . 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。
	4.	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。
	5.	He ran to the bulwarks as soon as the wave was passed, saw me, and lost me, and saw me again, as i tumbled in the roost . 浪头一过，他马上奔到船上，看见我在汹涌澎湃的巨浪中挣扎，一会儿沉下，一会儿浮起。
	6.	Mr. craddock's principles, of course, were quite right; he had given her plenty of run and ignored her cackle, and now she had come home to roost . 自然，克雷杜克先生的处世之道十分得当；他让她脱缰跑了个够，不理睬她的嘶鸣，而现在，她回到家里安歇了。
	7.	Jim is very bossy ; he always wants to rule the roost 吉姆很路矿扈，总是要当头。
	8.	Her selfishness will come home to roost someday 她的自私总有一天会得到报应。
	9.	Nocturnal , roosts in large colonies in old buildings 于夜间活动，大群栖居于旧建筑物内
	10.	The highest branch is not the safest roost 最高的树枝并非最安全的栖息处。 /凡高必险。

roost是什么意思

roost 是什么意思

中文翻译与英英解释

例句与用法