roost
[ru:st]
n.栖木, 鸟窝, 栖息处
v.栖息, 安歇
例句与用法:
It's Bill's wife who really rules the roost in that family.
在比尔家里,真正当家的是她的老婆。
Her selfishness will come home to roost someday.
她的自私总有一天会得到报应。
Curse, like chicken, come home to roost.
诅咒像鸡雏,必回栖息木。
词形变化:
动词过去式: roosted | 动词过去分词: roosted | 动词现在分词: roosting | 动词第三人称单数: roosts |
n.[C]
1. 栖木; 鸟巢; 鸡棚
Look! There is a roost in this tree.
看! 这棵树上有个鸟巢。
2. 歇息处; 卧室; 床
The eaves of this deserted house have become the roost for pigeons.
这所无人住的房子的屋檐成了鸽子的歇息处。
3. 群栖的禽鸟
The noise alarmed the whole roost into flight.
那闹声把一群栖息着的鸟吓得都飞走了。
vi.
1. 栖息; 进窝
Some birds roosted on a branch.
几只鸟栖于树枝上。
2. 歇息; 歇宿
vt.
1. 为……设置栖息处
2. 为……提供歇息处
短语词组:
come home to roost
1. 得到恶报
His unkindness to his daughter came home to roost.
他对女儿的刻薄得到了恶报。
rule the roost
1. 当家
It's Bill's wife who really rules the roost in that family.
比尔的太太才是他家的当家人。
roost
名词复数:roosts
过去式:roosted
过去分词:roosted
现在进行时:roosting
词形变化:
动词过去式: roosted | 动词过去分词: roosted | 动词现在分词: roosting | 动词第三人称单数: roosts |
词义辨析:
同义参见:
nest
den
habitat
seat
bed
residence
quarter
roost[ru:st]n.1.■栖木;栖息处2.■鸡棚3.■卧室;休息处所;床vi.1.■栖息;进窝2.■歇息;过夜vt.1.■使栖息2.■为…提供歇息处at roost栖息着;歇着;在睡觉come home to roost得到报应,自食其果,报应到自己身上回到原地方go to roost[口语](人)去卧室休息;上床睡觉,就寝(家禽等)去栖息rule the roost(或the roast)[口语]当头头;当家作主;独揽大权;称雄;支配一切
roostroost[ru:st]vi.1.■栖息; 夜宿
词性变化roost[ru:st]vt.1.■使栖息n.1.■栖木;鸟巢2.■安歇[睡眠]处3.■窝藏处4.■一巢[窝]鸟
noun
- a place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night, or where bats congregate to rest in the day
(鸟,蝙蝠)栖息处
- [no obj.](of a bird or bat) settle or congregate for rest or sleep
(鸟,蝙蝠)栖息
migrating martins and swallows were settling to roost.
迁徙的圣马丁鸟和燕子飞落下来栖息。
curses, like chickens, come home to roost
- (proverb)one's past mistakes or wrongdoings will eventually be the cause of present troubles
(谚)做错事(或坏事)会有报应,自作自受
for the overextended borrowers, the chickens have come home to roost.
冒过大风险的借款人现在自作自受了。
- Old English hrōst, related to Dutch roest; of unknown ultimate origin
roost2
noun
- (in the Orkneys and Shetlands) a tidal race
(奥克尼群岛和设得兰群岛的)急潮流
- mid 17th cent.: from Old Norse rǫst
roost
名词 roost:
a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
动词 roost:
sit, as on a branch
settle down or stay, as if on a roost
roost
■"You'll get a dollar a pound when elephants roost in trees!"
"等到大象在树林里做窝时,你就可以卖一美元一磅了!"
■Throughout much of the 20th century the excluders have ruled the roost, punishing those in their flock who dared to write for those paying the bills.
20世纪的大部份时间里,都是由排外者掌控大权,惩罚那些胆敢为纳税大众介绍科学的同僚。
■Rule the roost on the 20th of the Beijing Olympic Games champion also covered the state of Kenya and American Taylor, who won the men's 800 meters and 400 meters champion.
20日称雄的北京奥运会冠军还有肯尼亚的邦盖和美国人泰勒,他们分别获得男子800米和男子400米冠军。
■By nine o'clock all young children should be at roost.
9点钟前,孩子们必须睡着。
■at roost
adj. 栖于枝上(憩息着)
■come home to roost
vi. 报应(得到恶报)
■If ten thousand crows took a liking to the poet's few strands of grey hair, surely it wasn't so "tousled like a crow's nest" that they would want to roost on his head.
一万只乌鸦看中诗人几根白头发,难道“乱发如鸦窠”,要宿在他头上?
■To get a Branch to roost
一枝之栖
■Business dinners are best carried out on the first floor while couples are advised to roost upstairs.
一楼适合商务用餐,而二楼则是情侣们的天地。
■Both fears come home to roost with the central bank, which has to stimulate demand without undermining the currency.
上述两大担心都让中国央行伤脑筋,央行必须在不损及人民币汇率的情况下刺激需求。
■Don't ask me! Mr Smith rules the roost in this office.
不要问我,史密斯先生负责这个办公室。
■Nevertheless, the quality of Hong Kong music is still uninspiring, with manufactured pop, formulaic ballads and lacklustre covers ruling the roost.
不过,香港音乐的素质还是令人无法领教,粗制滥造的流行歌、老掉牙的情歌以及死板的口水歌仍旧当道。
■The Penguins will rule the roost at their Central Park Zoo home, doing secret missions in the heart of New York City.At times their secret missions beckon them to venture out of the zoo.
与此同时他们还要执行各种秘密任务,时不时地他们就要从动物园逃出来执行任务。
■Its Bills wife who really rules the roost in that family.
中文:在比尔家里,真正当家的是她的老婆。
■1.with somebody as the leader; 2.to be headed by; to be led by; to be the leader of; to rule the roost
为首
■1.to dominate; to dictate; to govern; to predominate; to rule the roost; 2.an arbitrator; a ruler
主宰
■"Crows may damage grain crops, But they also eat many economically harmful insects. At times tens of thousands roost together, But most species do not nest in colonies."
乌鸦虽然危害作物,但有助于防治经济害虫。有时数万只成群,但多数种类不集群营巢。
■Over the next two years the chickens will come to roost, and we, as a nation, will have to make the difficult choices between tax increases and spending reductions. That is why we expect some form of tax increases to occur.
今后两年我们必须担当后果。我们做为一个国家,必须在增税和削减开支两者之间做一个困难的抉择。因此我们预料将有某种形式的增税。
■He defended his remark about “chickens coming home to roost”.
他为他那番“作恶者必自毙“的言论进行辩护。
■The suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at day's end to go to sleep.
他们居住的郊区没有自身的勃勃生机,仅仅是他们晚上回来睡觉的栖息所。
■They came home to roost.
他们得到了恶报。
■Their chickens come home to roost.
他们是自做自受。
■Their lack of financial planning is now coming home to roost.
他们缺乏财政计画,现在得到报应了。
■His unkindness to his daughter came home to roost.
他对女儿的刻薄得到了恶报。
■He came home to roost for the winter.
他得到冬天的恶报。
■The price of adopting hybrid technology came home to roost when I recently priced weekly rental cars from Hertz for a series of trips and a vacation.
价格采用混合动力技术回家栖息时,我最近每周价格租车从赫兹一连串的行程和度假。
■No one sytle of satchel rules the roost
休闲风格的包包不是单一的
■But when the adult seal roost with the young seal on beach, they will be besetted in pollution and end in death.
但成年海豹和小海狗栖息海滩时,会被油的污染所困,以至于死亡。
■You should not have sold the motor-cycle in that unsafe condition; sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost.
你不该把那辆不安全的摩托车卖掉,你的不端行为迟早会得到报应。
■You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition; sooner of later you misdeeds will come home to roost.
你不该把那辆不安全的汽车卖掉,你的不端行为迟早会得到报应。
■You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition;sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost.
你不该把那辆不安全的车卖掉,你的不端行为迟早会得到报应。
■You have often expressed the hope that they might suffer harm.Now, you see, harmhas fallen upon you.Curses have the trick of coming home to roost.
你总是希望他们遭殃,现在你看,遭殃的是你自己。这真是:诅咒别人,报应自身。
■You have often expressed the hope that they might suffer harm. Now, you see, harm has fallen upon you. Curses have the trick of coming home to roost.
你总是希望他们遭殃,现在你看,遭殃的是你自己。这真是:诅咒别人,报应自身。
■You have been too arrogant since getting your new job, and your coworkers now don't like you. The chickens have come home to roost.
你接手新工作之后表现得太傲慢了,同事们现在都不喜欢你,遭报应了吧。
■You see, up to now, he's been king of the roost.
你明白,到现在为止,他一直是家中的小皇帝。
■You see, up to now, he's been king of the roost
你知道,直到现在,他一直是家里的小皇帝
■You see,up to now,he's been king of the roost.
你知道,直到现在,他一直是家里的小皇帝。
■E.g:The new house is small, but it is still his safest roost.
例子:虽然新房子很小,可是这还是他的安乐窝。
■A swoop of six arrives on motionless wing from their roost site in a nearby river, drop lightly to the ground amid the others, and lower their heads to pluck the scattered corn, flashing their brilliant caps of crimson like blood on snow.
六只丹顶鹤从附近河中的巢址翩然而至,轻盈地在其它鹤群之间落地,低头啄食四散的谷粒,露出一顶顶艳红色的头冠,一如雪中之血。
■"Nearly all species roost during the day (in caves, crevices, Burrows, Building, or trees) and feed at night."
几乎所有的蝙蝠均于白天憩息(如山洞、罅隙、地洞或建筑物内),夜出觅食。
■Don't ask for trouble by offending the cock of the roost.
别惹那头目,你会自找麻烦的。
■Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium is an interlocking mesh of steel that looks much like a roost for birds.
北京的鸟巢体育馆是复杂交错的钢架结构,看上很像一个鸟窝。
■Keywords regional wildlife protection system;roost recovery;habitat corridor;Huangshan city;
区域野生动植物保护系统;栖息地恢复;生境廊道;黄山市;
■You'll get a dollar a poundwhen elephants roost in trees.
卖一块钱一磅?除非西边出太阳!
■a bedroom; a roost
卧室
■Only in seeing the unconscious may one then release the ancestral karma that has come to roost so that it does not manifest in the physical.
只有在观察到无意识时,一个人随后才能释放已出现恶果的祖先业力,让它们不再显化在物质实相中。
■But long after the red cockaded woodpeckers had gone to roost, the ornithologists were still there
可在红冠啄木鸟离去歇着很久之后,鸟类学家还待着不走。
■Murina puta,roost,banana plant,furled leaves,leaf roost
台湾管鼻蝠,栖所,香蕉,蜷曲叶,叶栖所
■Jim is very bossy; he always wants to rule the roost.
吉姆很专横,总是要当头。
■Jim is very bossy;he always wants to rule the roost.
吉姆很路矿扈,总是要当头。
come home to roost
1. 得到恶报
His unkindness to his daughter came home to roost.
他对女儿的刻薄得到了恶报。
rule the roost
1. 当家
It's Bill's wife who really rules the roost in that family.
比尔的太太才是他家的当家人。
习惯用语at roost1.■在窝里栖息着(指家禽); 在睡觉, 在歇着(指人)come home to roost1.■对行动者本身产生不利; 使行动者自食其果go to roost1.■去栖息; [口]上床睡觉rule the roost1.■为首; 为王; 为领袖, 独揽大权