roost
roost1
noun
curses, like chickens, come home to roost
roost2
noun
noun
- a place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night, or where bats congregate to rest in the day
（鸟，蝙蝠）栖息处
- [no obj.](of a bird or bat) settle or congregate for rest or sleep
（鸟，蝙蝠）栖息
migrating martins and swallows were settling to roost.
迁徙的圣马丁鸟和燕子飞落下来栖息。
curses, like chickens, come home to roost
- (proverb)one's past mistakes or wrongdoings will eventually be the cause of present troubles
(谚)做错事（或坏事）会有报应，自作自受
for the overextended borrowers, the chickens have come home to roost.
冒过大风险的借款人现在自作自受了。
- Old English hrōst, related to Dutch roest; of unknown ultimate origin
roost2
noun
- (in the Orkneys and Shetlands) a tidal race
（奥克尼群岛和设得兰群岛的）急潮流
- mid 17th cent.: from Old Norse rǫst
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- voguish adj.时髦的，一度流行的
- voice n.嗓音,（动词的）语态,呼声，发言权,歌唱才能 vt.发音,表达，说出,给（一部乐曲）配上声部,给（如管风琴音管）整声
- voiced adj.有声的，浊音的,带声
- voicelessly adv.无声地，无发言权地
- voiceover n.画外音
- voiceprint n.<美>声波纹
- voicespond vi.口声通信(with)
- void adj.空的，空虚的，没人住的,（职位）空缺着的,无效的 n.太空，宇宙空间,空位，空隙,空虚感，寂寞的心情 vt.使无效,宣布…作废,取消,排泄
- voidable adj.可使无效的，得撤销的
- voidance n.放出,放空,空出,出清
- voila int.<法>那就是，瞧（表示事情成功或满意之感叹词用语）
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