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roost基本信息

读法：英 [ruːst] 美 [rust]

释义：

  • n. 栖木；鸟窝；群栖的禽鸟
  • vi. 栖息；安歇
  • vt. 使…栖息；为…提供歇息处
  • n. (Roost)人名；(德)罗斯特

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    英英释义

    Noun:

  • a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
  • a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
    • Verb:
  • sit, as on a branch;"The birds perched high in the tree"
  • settle down or stay, as if on a roost

    • 中英词源

    roost 鸟类栖息处，栖息

    来自古英语 hrost,禽鸟栖息处，来自 Proto-Germanic*hrodst,栖息。

    roost (n.)
    late Old English hrost "wooden framework of a roof, perch for domestic fowl," from Proto-Germanic *hro(d)-st- (cognates: Old Saxon hrost "framework of a roof, attic," Middle Dutch, Flemish, Dutch roest "roost," Old Norse hrot, Gothic hrot "roof," of unknown origin. Exact relationship and ulterior connections unknown. Extended sense "hen-house" is from 1580s. To rule the roost is recorded from 1769.
    roost (v.)
    1520s, from roost (n.). Related: Roosted; roosting. Chickens come home to roost in reference to eventual consequences of bad actions attested from 1824; the original proverb seems to have been curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

    词态变化

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

    权威造句

    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。

    来自柯林斯例句

    2. Appeasement has come home to roost.
    绥靖政策的恶果已经显现出来了。

    来自柯林斯例句

    3. Instinct led the pigeons back to the roost.
    鸽子的本能使它们返回鸽棚.

    来自《简明英汉词典》Www.WenTiYi.coM

    4. Chickens roost at night.
    鸡晚上歇息.

    来自《简明英汉词典》

    5. Birds roost in [ on ] the trees.
    鸟儿 栖 在树上.

    来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

    近反义词

  • rule the roost 当家(作主
  • come home to roost 报应(得到恶报)...
  • home 家
  • at roost 栖于枝上(憩息着)...
  • go to roost 就寝
  • cock of the roost 在小天地里称王称霸的...

    • 相似短语

  • at roost adv.<口>歇着,睡着
  • go to roost 去栖息,去上床睡觉
  • rule the roost 独揽大权,支配一切
  • cock of the roost 在小天地里称王称霸的人
  • curses come home to roost 诅咒他人应验自己
  • come home to roost v.得到恶报,归还原主
  • Curses come home to roost 诅咒他人应验自己
  • curses come home to roost. st.诅咒他人应验自己.
  • Curses come home to roost. st. 诅咒他人应验自己.

    • 单词分析

    暂无,等待补充.

    记忆方法

    roost音“入室的”→入室栖息

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