The explosion scattered a flock of birds roosting in the trees.
爆炸声把栖息在树丛中的鸟群惊散了。
《牛津词典》I say "roosting" because it seemed almost asleep; perhaps not quite.
说“栖息”,是因为它似乎睡着了,但也许并没有真正睡着。
Trees will be destroyed and the 750 roosting egrets will need to find a new home.
树将全部被毁坏,750只可爱的白鹭将无家可归。
To catch roosting birds at night by blinding them with a light and then hitting or netting them.
夜间以灯火眩鸟目而捕捉夜间捕捉栖息在巢中的鸟。
This paper describes experiments on treating arsenic bearing dust resulted in rotary roosting kiln.
介绍了处理回转窑焙烧含砷物料所产烟尘的试验研究。
The street out here is full of people, and others are roosting on the fences, waiting to get a glimpse of you.
外面街上站满了人,还有许多人骑在栅栏,大家都在等着要瞧你一眼。
Enormous open windows with heavy iron bars made the high and barren room the roosting place of hundreds of pigeons.
沉重的铁条嵌在巨大的窗户上,其间出入的上百只鸽子把这个高处不胜寒的地方当成了他们惬意的居所。
Biologists found a pregnant female roosting in a pine tree, and say they might be able to improve the bats' living situation.
生物学家们在一棵松树上发现了一只怀孕的蝙蝠妈妈,并说他们也许能够帮助改善蝙蝠的生存环境。
Outside the St John's shopping centre branch, a pigeon was roosting beneath the garish yellow and red signs advertising the 50% off.
在圣约翰购物中心分店外边,一只鸽子在醒目的红黄两色降价50%的招牌下咕咕叫着。
Once, a flock of birds flew past overhead, on their way to some hidden roosting place, uttering as they flew a clear bell-like chirp;
有一次,一群鸟儿从我们头顶飞过。啾啾唧唧地清脆得像铃声一样叫着归巢;
The bird, however hard the frost may be, flies briskly to his customary roosting-place, and, with beak tucked into his wing, falls asleep.
尽管天气如此寒冷,鸟儿还是会精神勃勃的飞往它们的栖息之地,将喙藏在翅膀下,缓缓入睡。
More recently, their Numbers have fallen because of the widespread loss of wild wetland habitats needed for feeding, nesting, and roosting.
最近,由于其栖息的湿地大面积地消失,其数量又一次急剧下降。
The occurrence of the roosting sites was positively related to degree of slope, wood cover and wood height, and negatively related to herb cover.
白马鸡群体的夜栖地选择与坡度、乔木盖度和乔木高度正相关,与草本盖度负相关。
Other primates, however, have been shown to continue roosting with dead compatriots, showing little regard or concern for the rotting bodies around them.
而其他的灵长类却会继续在死去的同胞附近栖息,似乎它们对那些腐烂中的尸体一点也不介意。
Blakiston had to return to re-record her dialog when it was discovered that pigeons that had been roosting in the set were audible in the original recordings.
由于在原始录音的背景里被发现能听到杂音,因此布莱基斯顿不得不回去重录她的对话。
Above them rose the primeval yews and oaks of the Chase, in which were poised gentle roosting birds in their last nap; and about them stole the hopping rabbits and hares.
在他们的四周,都是猎苑里长的密密麻麻的古老的水杉和橡树,树上栖息的温柔小鸟还在睡最后的一觉;在树林中间,大大小小的野兔在悄悄地蹦来跳去。
One autumn day there fluttered on to the Cathedral roof a slender, sweet-voiced bird that had wandered away from the bare fields and thinning hedgerows in search of a winter roosting-place.
秋日的一天,大教堂屋顶上飞来一只体态轻盈、叫声甜美的小鸟。 它离开荒芜的原野和日渐稀疏的矮树篱只为寻一处冬季的栖息地。
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come home to roost
得到恶报,报应;归还原主