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

• 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
• 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。
• The explosion scattered a flock of birds roosting in the trees.
  爆炸声把树上的鸟惊飞了。
• 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。
• Above them rose the primeval yews and oaks of The Chase, in which were poised gentle roosting birds in their last nap; and about them stole the hopping rabbits and hares.
  在他们的四周，都是猎苑里长的密密麻麻的古老的水杉和橡树，树上栖息的温柔小鸟还在睡最后的一觉；在树林中间，大大小小的野兔在悄悄地蹦来跳去。
• 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。
• 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
• 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
• 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。
• 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。