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 roost [ru:st]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 栖木, 休息所, 群栖的禽鸟

vi. 栖息, 安歇

vt. 使栖息




    roost
    [ noun ]
    1. a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds

      2. <noun.artifact>
    2. a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep

      3. <noun.artifact>
    [ verb ]
    1. sit, as on a branch

      2. <verb.contact> perch rest
      The birds perched high in the tree
    2. settle down or stay, as if on a roost

      3. <verb.change>


    Roost \Roost\, n.
    Roast. [Obs.] --Chaucer.


    Roost \Roost\, v. t.
    See {Roust}, v. t.


    Roost \Roost\, n. [AS. hr[=o]st; akin to OD. roest roost,
    roesten to roost, and probably to E. roof. Cf. {Roof}.]
    1. The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a
    perch.

    He clapped his wings upon his roost. --Dryden.

    2. A collection of fowls roosting together.

    {At roost}, on a perch or roost; hence, retired to rest.


    Roost \Roost\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roosted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Roosting}.]
    1. To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a
    tree, etc.; to perch. --Wordsworth.

    2. Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.

    O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid,
    O, let me roost and nestle there. --Herbert.

    Roust \Roust\, n. [Cf. Icel. r["o]st an estuary.]
    A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
    [Written also {rost}, and {roost}.] --Jamieson.

    1. If history is any guide, those lower-quality earnings also will come home to roost in lower stock prices, analysts say.
    2. The Mideast situation, falling wheat prices and now budget cuts have all come to roost since the farm bill passed the two houses," he said.
    3. In the chicken world, salmonella rules the roost.
    4. His face fills with chickens coming home to roost.
    5. The cranes roost along the river's sandbars to keep safe from predators.
    6. The pins, buttons and T-shirts this year are deeply derisive of Governor Bill Clinton, who is portrayed as a womanising, draft-dodging scoundrel. But negativity does not rule the whole roost.
    7. No country is ready to knock the United States from its roost as the world's top poultry producer.
    8. And Massachusetts, in common with a dozen other states, now must live with tax revolt measures passed a decade ago that are now coming home to roost, making local school tax increases hard or even impossible.
    9. Ephemeral, fickle, call the season what you will, but issues came and went almost as quickly as movies of the week - until the campaign came home to roost in voter pocketbooks.
    10. And William Dunkelberg, business school dean at Temple University, suggests: "The chicken is coming home to roost.
    11. But the Met's artistic director, James Levine, has mostly ignored these trends and now the chickens are coming home to roost as the Verdi repertoire becomes increasingly difficult to cast.
    12. About 200 whooping cranes exist today, and about 130 of them roost each winter along the Texas Gulf Coast.
    13. "They roost primarily on the ground.
    14. Here and there were the bodies of pigeons, who normally roost on the ceiling's lights.
    15. South Africa's constitutional chicken is coming home to roost.
    16. The cluster of trees where the woodpeckers roost is called a colony.
    17. They roost among trees along the road at night and wander over the Smiths' three-acre spread during the day.
    18. But that does not explain why it has suffered more than any other. Part of the answer is that last year's supply problem has finally come home to roost.
    19. The debt incurred in those buy-outs, and the rosy assumptions about how it would all be paid off, have come home to roost.
    20. THE SKIES over the City were dark this week with the wings of chickens coming home to roost.
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