roost

1. N-COUNT A roost is a place where birds or bats rest or sleep. 棲息處

Something disturbed the bird on its roost. 什么東西驚擾了那只棲息的鳥(niǎo)。

2. V-I When birds or bats roost somewhere, they rest or sleep there. 棲息

The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs. 那只孔雀在附近的灌木叢里棲息。

3. PHRASE 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. 自食其果

Appeasement has come home to roost. 綏靖已自食其果。

4. PHRASE If you say that someone rules the roost in a particular place, you mean that they have control and authority over the people there. 大權(quán)在握[非正式]

Today the country's nationalists rule the roost and hand out the jobs. 如今這個(gè)國(guó)家的民族主義者掌握大權(quán)，分派那些工作。