nest

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  • n.窝；鸟巢；巢穴；鸟窝
  • v.筑巢；巢居；嵌套（信息）
  • Web雀巢
Plural Form：nests  Present Participle：nesting  Past Tense：nested  

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nest
n.
1.
[c]
鸟巢；鸟窝a hollow place or structure that a bird makes or chooses for laying its eggs in and sheltering its young
2.
[c]
巢穴；窝a place where insects or other small creatures live and produce their young
3.
[sing]
藏匿处；秘密窝点a secret place which is full of bad people and their activities
a nest of thieves
贼窝
4.
[sing]
家；安乐窝the home, thought of as the safe place where parents bring up their children
to leave the nest(= leave your parents' home)
离开父母过独立生活
5.
[c][ususing]
（套叠在一起的）一套物件a group or set of similar things that are made to fit inside each other
a nest of tables
一套桌子
v.
1.
[i]
筑巢；巢居to make and use a nest
Thousands of seabirds are nesting on the cliffs.
成千上万的海鸟在悬崖上筑巢。
2.
[t]
~ sth
嵌套（信息）to put types of information together, or inside each other, so that they form a single unit

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Definition:
AllAll,窝窝,鸟巢鸟巢,巢穴巢穴,鸟窝鸟窝,筑巢筑巢,巢居巢居,嵌套嵌套,雀巢雀巢
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1.
Seen from the top, it looks as if the stadium is covered by a gray net of steel, and it looks just like a bird's nest made of tree branches.
从顶部看，体育馆好像是覆盖着一张灰色的钢网，看起来正像是用树枝搭成的鸟窝。
cóng dǐng bù kàn , tǐ yù guǎn hǎo xiàng shì fù gài zhe yī zhāng huī sè de gāng wǎng , kàn qǐ lái zhèng xiàng shì yòng shù zhī dā chéng de niǎo wō 。
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2.
" Little crow like: " This is the next boss will repair, do not they nest so broken, it is possible to live in it?
小乌鸦想：“这下老大一定会修了，难道窠这样破了，它还能住吗？”
xiǎo wū yā xiǎng : " zhè xià lǎo dà yí dìng huì xiū le , nán dào kē zhè yàng pò le , tā hái néng zhù ma ? "
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3.
The poor Swede found himself in a hornet's nest; everyone in the place hated him, particularly his shipmates.
可怜的瑞典人这才发现自己惹出了大乱子，在场的每个人都恨他，特别是和他在同一条船上的水手。
kě lián de ruì diǎn rén zhè cái fā xiàn zì jǐ rě chū le dà luàn zǐ , zài chǎng de měi gè rén dōu hèn tā , tè bié shì hé tā zài tóng yī tiáo chuán shàng de shuǐ shǒu 。
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4.
When they had picked up the food, he caught them and made them return through a different channel, which also led to the nest.
当它们获取食物后，就把它们捉住，让它们通过另一条通往蚁巢的沟返回。
dāng tā men huò qǔ shí wù hòu , jiù bǎ tā men zhuō zhù , ràng tā men tōng guò lìng yī tiáo tōng wǎng yǐ cháo de gōu fǎn huí 。
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5.
It's time to leave the nest, but the garden can be a dangerous place. By Dominic Couzens.
该离开巢了，但是花园可能是一个危险的地方。
gāi lí kāi cháo le , dàn shì huā yuán kě néng shì yī gè wēi xiǎn de dì fang 。
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6.
He's not ready to leave the nest yet, but it is another step forward in his flight to total independence.
雏儿还没做好离巢的准备，但这对孩子来说，却是向完全独立迈出了一步。
chú er hái méi zuò hǎo lí cháo de zhǔn bèi , dàn zhè duì hái zi lái shuō , què shì xiàng wán quán dú lì mài chū le yī bù 。
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7.
'Tony Bill will be so sorry ti leave our nest, 'answered Bright Eyes, 'and he will not qo away from our mother.
“离巢的小喙也会很难过”，明眸说，“它也不会离开我们的妈妈。”
" lí cháo de xiǎo huì yě huì hěn nán guò " , míng móu shuō , " tā yě bú huì lí kāi wǒ men de mā mā 。 "
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8.
What's more, the hornets seems to correlate the business of digging its underground nest with the intensity of the sun.
而且黄蜂挖掘地下洞穴的活动似乎是和太阳的强度相互关联的。
ér qiě huáng fēng wā jué dì xià dòng xué de huó dòng sì hū shì hé tài yáng de qiáng dù xiāng hù guān lián de 。
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9.
He returned to the pet store that afternoon, reasoning that he might as well convert the snake's lair into a rat's nest.
那天下午他又返回宠物店，照此推测，莫不如把蛇窝儿变成养老鼠的地方。
nà tiān xià wǔ tā yòu fǎn huí chǒng wù diàn , zhào cǐ tuī cè , mò bù rú bǎ shé wō ér biàn chéng yǎng lǎo shǔ de dì fang 。
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10.
She scraped together the dead leaves till she had formed them into a large heap, making a sort of nest in the middle.
她把一些枯叶扫到一起，堆成一大堆，在中间扒出一个窝来。
tā bǎ yì xiē kū yè sǎo dào yì qǐ , duī chéng yī dà duī , zài zhōng jiān bā chū yī gè wō lái 。
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