roost

roost

英[ru:st]美[rust]

n.栖木，鸡棚，（鸟类）栖息处，歇息处；

vi.栖息，过去事情的恶果显现出来，自食恶果，得到报应；

复数：roosts;

第三人称单数：roosts;

过去式：roosted;

过去分词：roosted;

现在分词：roosting;

例句

For years he avoided paying tax. But now his chickens have come home to roost and he’s got a tax bill of ￡25000.多年来他一直迴避纳稅，现在报应来了，他的稅额累积到了2.5万英镑。

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 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.

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

Chickens roost at night.鸡晚上歇息.

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

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。

Politicians can fool some people some of the time, but in the end, the chickens will come home to roost.*客们有时能够愚弄一些人，但*终他们都会自食恶果。

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

The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs.孔雀栖息在附近的灌木丛里。

同义词

roost的同义词之：

词组

curses, like chickens, come home to roost

come home to roost

rule the roost【非正式用语】

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N-COUNT

(鸟类或蝙蝠的)栖息处，窝

A roost is a place where birds or bats rest or sleep.

VERB

栖息

When birds or bats roost somewhere, they rest or sleep there.

例句

PHRASE

自食苦果;得到惩罚;遭到报应

If bad or wrong things that someone has done in the past have come home to roost, or if their chickens have come home to roost, they are now experiencing the unpleasant effects of these actions.

例句

PHRASE

当家;作主;主宰;领导

If you say that someone rules the roost in a particular place, you mean that they have control and authority over the people there.

例句

英汉词典释义

n.

栖息处

vi.

栖息, 歇息

过去事情的恶果显现出来；自食恶果；得到报应

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds

2. a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep

Verb

1. sit, as on a branch;

2. settle down or stay, as if on a roost