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 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。
• Enormous open windows with heavy iron bars made the high and barren room the roosting place of hundreds of pigeons.
  沉重的铁条嵌在巨大的窗户上，其间出入的上百只鸽子把这个高处不胜寒的地方当成了他们惬意的居所。
• 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。
• 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。
• This heron mixed with little egrets ( Egretta garzetta) and other species of egrets or herons, wading and feeding in water or roosting on the islet.
  该白脸鹭混杂于白鹭（Egrettagarzetta）等鹭类群体内，涉水觅食或栖息于岸上。
• The explosion scattered a flock of birds roosting in the trees.
  爆炸声把树上的鸟惊飞了。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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