nest / nɛst /

⭐基础词汇巢穴鸟巢窝点

nest3 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
  2. a place used by insects, fishes, turtles, rabbits, etc., for depositing their eggs or young.
  3. a number of birds, insects, animals, etc., inhabiting one such place.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to settle or place in or as if in a nest: to nest dishes in straw.
  2. to fit or place one within another: to nest boxes for more compact storage.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to build or have a nest: The swallows nested under the eaves.
  2. to settle in or as if in a nest.
  3. to fit together or within another or one another: bowls that nest easily for storage.

nest 近义词

n. 名词 noun

home

更多nest例句

  1. With tens of millions across the US currently unemployed, the number of residents with anything close to an ample emergency nest egg has likely dropped even lower.
  2. Most creatures, most of the time, find it easier to do the latter than the former, which is why living things generally are more concerned with feathering their nests than de-feathering those of others.
  3. For example, some of them sat on eggs in open nests, like modern birds.
  4. They also worry that the investigation could be used to build up his own nest of public funds and could be used to resurrect the controversial $470 million desalination project in Playas de Rosarito.
  5. This could include whole nests of honeybees, other types of hornets and yellow jackets.
  6. Unlike Brunner, Remer was itinerant, and spent much time in that other nest of postwar Nazis—Cairo.
  7. Mark Reay is a handsome model-turned-photographer who is homeless, living in a secret ‘nest’ on top of an apartment building.
  8. And an eaglet does not start off flying from the ground, but from the nest.
  9. When he approached the wrecked nest, Patterson saw one of the eaglets on the exposed ground near the base of the tree.
  10. He then spoke to the state police, who proved to be aware of the fallen nest.
  11. A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
  12. Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.
  13. The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.
  14. And away she flew to her nest, leaving Grandfather Mole to talk to the air, if he wished.
  15. Weimar being such a "kleines Nest (little nest)," as Liszt calls it, every stranger is immediately remarked.