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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