roost
n. 棲木,雞棚; (鳥類)棲息處; 歇息處
vi. 棲息; 過去事情的惡果顯現出來; 自食惡果; 得到報應
A roost is a place where birds or bats rest or sleep.
When birds or bats roost somewhere, they rest or sleep there.
The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs.
孔雀棲息在附近的灌木叢裡。
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.
Appeasement has come home to roost...
綏靖政策的惡果已經顯現出來了。
Politicians can fool some people some of the time, but in the end, the chickens will come home to roost.
政客們有時能夠愚弄一些人,但最終他們都會自食惡果。
If you say that someone rules the roost in a particular place, you mean that they have control and authority over the people there.
Today the country's nationalists rule the roost and hand out the jobs.
現今,這個國家由民族主義者掌權並分派工作。
1. a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
2. a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
1. sit, as on a branch;
2. settle down or stay, as if on a roost
curses, like chickens, come home to roost
(諺)做錯事(或壞事)會有報應,自作自受
come home to roost
後果,惡報:尤指有不幸的間接影響或後果
rule the roost【非正式用語】
主管;主宰,支配一切
Tommy is very bossy; he always wants to rule the roost.
湯米很專橫, 他總是想一切由他支配.
Like benevolence and righteousness, they are roost on the way of practice.
它們就像仁義一樣,是修行人在修行路上的休息站.
Cures, like chickens , come home to roost.
詛咒人者反咒自.
They ruled the roost.
他們是最好的.
You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition ; sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost.
你不該把那輛不安全的車賣掉, 你的不端行為遲早會得到報應.