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Nest N Count 可数名词 Home N Eggs Bird Building

英语单词 nest
英美音标 英 [nest] 美 [nest]
中文释义 n.巢;窝
vt.为 ... 筑巢;嵌入
vi.筑巢;寻找鸟巢
英语例句 (1) The blackbird's nest contained four eggs.
(2) The male hunts for food while his mate guards the nest.
(3) The bird is building a nest of straw and twigs.
(4) The swallow has made a nest under our eaves.
(5) The nest held three vigorous young birds.
(6) The boy was nesting for the little birds.
(7) You can nest up to 64 levels of functions.
(8) She nested the glass tumblers in a crate.
(9) You can nest one kind of control structure within another kind.
(10) The swallows nested under the eaves.
(11) There the birds nest and bring up their young.
中文例句 (1) 黑鹂巢里有四个蛋。
(2) 雌性动物守巢时,雄性动物猎食。
(3) 这只鸟在用稻草和小树枝筑巢。
(4) 燕子在我们的屋檐下垒了一个窝。
(5) 这窝里有三只活泼的小鸟。
(6) 这个男孩正在为这些小鸟筑巢。
(7) 最多可以嵌套64个级别的函数。
(8) 她把玻璃酒杯一个套一个放在箱子里。
(9) 可以在一种控制结构中嵌套另一种控制结构。
(10) 燕子在屋檐下筑巢。
(11) 这些鸟在那里筑巢并哺育幼鸟。
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](鸟)巢;(鸟)窝 A bird's nest is the home that it makes to lay its eggs in.
  [oft poss N]
  • I can see an eagle's nest on the rocks.

    我能看到岩石上的鹰巢。

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[VERB 动词](鸟类)筑巢,做窝 When a bird nests somewhere, it builds a nest and settles there to lay its eggs.
  [V]
  [V-ing]
  • Some species may nest in close proximity to each other.

    一些鸟类会彼此紧挨着筑巢。

  • ...nesting sites.

    巢址

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](昆虫或动物的)巢,穴 A nest is a home that a group of insects or other creatures make in order to live in and give birth to their young in.
  [usu poss N]
  • Some solitary bees make their nests in burrows in the soil.

    一些独居蜂会把巢筑在田间的地洞里。

  • ...a rat's nest.

    鼠穴

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]安乐窝;安适的地方 You can refer to a place as your nest when it is your home or where you feel comfortable and relaxed.
  [usu with poss]
  • My wife seems to be building a nest of her own at Osborne House...

    我夫人像是要把奥斯本庄园变成自己的安乐窝。

  • The baby had been asleep in her nest of pink and white blankets.

    婴儿睡在粉色和白色毛毯铺成的小窝里。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]老巢;窟;秘密窝点;(贼窟中的)一帮 You can use nest to refer to a place where something bad is being done or to the people there who are doing it.
  [N of n]
  • ...Biarritz, notorious in those days as a nest of spies...

    比亚里茨,那时候出了名的间谍老巢

  • Are you telling me that you've got your own little nest of informers in the Police Department?

    你是说你在警察局有一帮通风报信的?

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See also:
crow's nest
love nest
    7
    [PHRASE 短语]营私;自肥 If you say that someone is feathering their nest, you mean that they are getting a lot of money out of something, so that they can lead a comfortable life.
      [V and N inflect]
    • Mary's much more interested in doing things for other people than feathering her own nest.

      相比追逐私利,玛丽更乐意帮助他人。

    8
    [PHRASE 短语]自立门户;独立生活 When children fly the nest, they leave their parents' home to live on their own.
      [V inflects]
    • When their children had flown the nest, he and his wife moved to a thatched cottage in Dorset.

      孩子们独立生活后,他和妻子搬到多塞特的茅草屋去住了。

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    a hornet's nest→see:
    hornet

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