roosted

英 [ˈruːstɪd]

美 [ˈruːstɪd]

v.  栖息
roost的过去分词和过去式

COCA.43938

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

• Chunyu Kun then said, I have heard that there is a bird in our country that has roosted in the palace for three years, but it does not fly or sing.
  淳于髡见齐威王并不讨厌他，便说：听说我们国家有一只大鸟，就栖息在宫廷里，一住三年，既不飞也不叫。
• Lk. 13:19 It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of heaven roosted in its branches.
  路十三19好像一粒芥菜种，有人拿去撒在自己的园子里，长大成树，天空的飞鸟栖宿在它的枝上。
• Today, I was sitting on a park bench when a tiny old woman in a black dress came over, roosted down beside me and started bossing me around about something.
  今天，我坐在公园板凳上的时候，有个身穿黑衣的小老太婆走过来，在我身边坐下，对我呼来唤去地说着什么。
• Some birds roosted on a branch.
  几只鸟栖于树枝上。
• Everyone is seated in meditation, roosted there, you might say, and I slip in beside them, the new bird in the flock, completely unnoticed.
  人人都在打坐，可以说是窝在那里，而我则溜进他们旁边，鸡群当中的新来者，根本无人注意。