roosting是什么意思？

roosting

• v. 栖息( roost的现在分词 )，过去事情的恶果显现出来，自食恶果，得到报应；

例句

• The location of suitable roosting and nesting environments also has to be considered. 还需要考虑适宜的营巢和栖息环境.
• As a result, the number of sea birds roosting on the coastal islands decreases. 结果, 栖息于沿海岛屿的海鸟数量也相应下降.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• 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
  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 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
  Appeasement has come home to roost... 绥靖政策的恶果已经显现出来了。 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 someone rules the roost in a particular place, you mean that they have control and authority over the people there.
  例句
  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。