roost

英 [ruːst]

美 [ruːst]

n.  (鸟类的)栖息处
v.  栖息

现在分词：roosting　复数：roosts　过去式：roosted　第三人称单数：roosts　过去分词：roosted　

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Collins.1 / BNC.18729 / COCA.16270

习惯用语

n.

rule the roost
• 当头头；充当首领；主宰
  to be the most powerful member of a group

v.

sth comes home to roost
• 自食恶果；报应到自己身上
  used to say that if sb says or does sth bad or wrong, it will affect them badly in the future

牛津词典

noun

• （鸟类的）栖息处
  a place where birds sleep

verb

• 栖息
  to rest or go to sleep somewhere

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。

英英释义

noun

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

verb

• settle down or stay, as if on a roost
• sit, as on a branch
  1. The birds perched high in the tree
  Synonym:perchrest

双语例句

• 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。
• At home Alfred Roberts rules the roost, and there was no question that what he said went.
  在家里，是艾尔弗雷德·罗伯茨说了算，他说什么，就是什么，不容许表示任何怀疑。
• 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。
• A wise fox will never rob his neighbor's hen roost.
  聪明的狐狸不劫邻居的鸡窝。
• Birds roost in [ on] the trees.
  鸟儿栖在树上。
• The pigeons were just gathering to roost, and sunlight slanted on the dove-cot, on their snowy feathers.
  鸽子正群集归栖，日光斜照在鸽埘上，照在他们雪白的羽毛上。
• Singing and dancing can be OK, program number is infinite, rule the roost!
  唱歌跳舞都能行，节目数目正无穷，称雄！
• 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。
• Don't ask for trouble by offending the cock of the roost.
  别惹那头目，你会自找麻烦的。
• Peafowl fly well despite their size, and roost in trees at night.
  孔雀不管大小，都善于飞行，晚上在树上栖息。