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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。