Nest
[nest] or [nɛst]
解释:
(noun.) a kind of gun emplacement; 'a machine-gun nest'; 'a nest of snipers'.
(noun.) furniture pieces made to fit close together.
(noun.) a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality; 'a nest of thieves'.
(noun.) a cosy or secluded retreat.
(noun.) a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young.
(verb.) gather nests.
(verb.) fit together or fit inside; 'nested bowls'.
(verb.) inhabit a nest, usually after building; 'birds are nesting outside my window every Spring'.
艾达校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.
(n.) Hence: the place in which the eggs of other animals, as insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared.
(n.) A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs.
(n.) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
(n.) A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
(n.) A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
(v. i.) To build and occupy a nest.
(v. t.) To put into a nest; to form a nest for.
编辑:默里
同义词及近义词：
n. Aerie.
编辑:尼特
解释:
n. the bed formed by a bird for hatching her young: the place in which the eggs of any animal are laid and hatched: a comfortable residence: a number of persons haunting one place for a bad purpose: the place itself: a number of baskets or boxes each fitting inside the next larger.—v.t. to form a nest for.—v.i. to build and occupy a nest.—n. Nest′-egg an egg left in the nest to keep the hen from forsaking it: something laid up as the beginning of an accumulation.—Feather one's nest to provide for one's self esp. from other people's property of which one has had charge.
赫尔曼手打
娱乐性解释：
To see an empty bird's nest, denotes gloom and a dull outlook for business. With eggs in the nest, good results will follow all engagements. If young ones are in the nest, it denotes successful journeys and satisfactory dealings. If they are lonely and deserted, sorrow, and folly of yours will cause you anxiety.
To dream of seeing birds' nests, denotes that you will be interested in an enterprise which will be prosperous. For a young woman, this dream foretells change of abode. To see an empty nest, indicates sorrow through the absence of a friend. Hens' nests, foretells that you will be interested in domesticities, and children will be cheerful and obedient. To dream of a nest filled with broken or bad eggs, portends disappointments and failure. See Birds' Nest.
校对:谢尔比
例句:
- So, I presented Joe to Herbert, who held out his hand; but Joe backed from it, and held on by the bird's-nest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Nest-ce pas que c'est beau? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Meg is the turtledove, and Amy is like the lark she writes about, trying to get up among the clouds, but always dropping down into its nest again. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- And off she bustled, leaving me to settle myself in my new nest. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Ruined the nest, alas! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I dare say at some time or other Sentiment and Comedy will bring THEIR husbands home and have THEIR nests upstairs too. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- They are incapable of making their own nests, or of feeding their own larvae. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Audubon has given several remarkable cases of differences in the nests of the same species in the northern and southern United States. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Your three birds are all in their nests, said Holmes, looking up. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Amy and Louisa, return to your nests like a pair of doves, as you are. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- But there was no reply to Wildeve's shout, save a mournful whining from the herons which were nesting lower down the vale. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- She must be nesting now. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
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