roost /ruːst/ TEM8 ( roosting, roosted, roosts )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A roost is a place where birds or bats rest or sleep. 栖息处

  例：

  Something disturbed the bird on its roost.

  什么东西惊扰了那只栖息的鸟。

• 2. 

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

  例：

  The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs.

  那只孔雀在附近的灌木丛里栖息。

• 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

  例：

  Appeasement has come home to roost.

  绥靖已自食其果。

• 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. 大权在握 [非正式]

  例：

  Today the country's nationalists rule the roost and hand out the jobs.

  如今这个国家的民族主义者掌握大权，分派那些工作。