| 1. | Now the chickens were coming home to roost .
这不，报应就在眼前。 |
| 2. | Spilled water also falls under the roosts rather than into the litter .
洒出来的水会落到栖息架下而不会进入垫料。 |
| 3. | As you say, creditors are roosting in trees like vultures waiting to swoop down on anything valuable .
你晓得，那些债主象兀鹰一般歇在树枝上，伺机对任何有价值的东西飞扑下来。 |
| 4. | The street out here is full of people, and others are roosting on the fences, waiting to get a glimpse of you .
外面街上站满了人，还有许多人骑在栅栏，大家都在等着要瞧你一眼。 |
| 5. | He ran to the bulwarks as soon as the wave was passed, saw me, and lost me, and saw me again, as i tumbled in the roost .
浪头一过，他马上奔到船上，看见我在汹涌澎湃的巨浪中挣扎，一会儿沉下，一会儿浮起。 |
| 6. | Mr. craddock's principles, of course, were quite right; he had given her plenty of run and ignored her cackle, and now she had come home to roost .
自然，克雷杜克先生的处世之道十分得当；他让她脱缰跑了个够，不理睬她的嘶鸣，而现在，她回到家里安歇了。 |
| 7. | Jim is very bossy ; he always wants to rule the roost
吉姆很路矿扈，总是要当头。 |
| 8. | Her selfishness will come home to roost someday
她的自私总有一天会得到报应。 |
| 9. | Nocturnal , roosts in large colonies in old buildings
于夜间活动，大群栖居于旧建筑物内 |
| 10. | The highest branch is not the safest roost
最高的树枝并非最安全的栖息处。 /凡高必险。 |
