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(鳥)巢;(鳥)窩
A bird's nest is the home that it makes to lay its eggs in.
例句
I can see an eagle's nest on the rocks.
我能看到巖石上的鷹巢。
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VERB
(鳥類)筑巢，做窩
When a bird nests somewhere, it builds a nest and settles there to lay its eggs.
例句
Some species may nest in close proximity to each other.
一些鳥類會彼此緊挨著筑巢。
...nesting sites.
巢址
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(昆蟲或動物的)巢，穴
A nest is a home that a group of insects or other creatures make in order to live in and give birth to their young in.
例句
Some solitary bees make their nests in burrows in the soil.
一些獨居蜂會把巢筑在田間的地洞里。
...a rat's nest.
鼠穴
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安樂窩;安適的地方
You can refer to a place as your nest when it is your home or where you feel comfortable and relaxed.
例句
My wife seems to be building a nest of her own at Osborne House...
我夫人像是要把奧斯本莊園變成自己的安樂窩。
The baby had been asleep in her nest of pink and white blankets.
嬰兒睡在粉色和白色毛毯鋪成的小窩里。
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老巢;窟;秘密窩點;(賊窟中的)一幫
You can use nest to refer to a place where something bad is being done or to the people there who are doing it.
例句
...Biarritz, notorious in those days as a nest of spies...
比亞里茨，那時候出了名的間諜老巢
Are you telling me that you've got your own little nest of informers in the Police Department?
你是說你在警察局有一幫通風報信的？
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營私;自肥
If you say that someone is feathering their nest, you mean that they are getting a lot of money out of something, so that they can lead a comfortable life.
例句
Mary's much more interested in doing things for other people than feathering her own nest.
相比追逐私利，瑪麗更樂意幫助他人。
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PHRASE
自立門戶;獨立生活
When children fly the nest, they leave their parents' home to live on their own.
例句
When their children had flown the nest, he and his wife moved to a thatched cottage in Dorset.
孩子們獨立生活后，他和妻子搬到多塞特的茅草屋去住了。