nest
n. 巢, 窝, 休息所, 隐匿处 vi. 筑巢, 找鸟巢 vt. 为...设窝, 使套叠 [计] 嵌套
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教材释义与例句
巢，窝；安乐窝；温床
a place made or chosen by a bird to lay its eggs in and to live in
筑巢；嵌套
to build or use a nest
筑巢；找鸟巢
释义与例句
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A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
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A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
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A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
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A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
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A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
a nest of thieves
That nightclub is a nest of strange people!
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A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
I am aspiring to leave the nest.
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A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
游戏I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.
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A fortified position for a weapon.
政治 军事a machine gun nest
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A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
计算机 工程 数学Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.
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A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
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An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
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A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
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A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
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The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
美国 俚语 粗俗
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To build or settle into a nest.
筑巢
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To settle into a home.
不及物We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
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To successively neatly fit inside another.
不及物I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
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To place in, or as if in, a nest.
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To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
及物There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
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To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
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词汇关系
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词源
From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).
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