• n. 巢，窩；安樂窩；溫床
• vt. 筑巢；嵌套
• vi. 筑巢；找鳥巢
• n. (Nest)人名；(德)內(nèi)絲特；(英)內(nèi)絲特(女子教名 Agnes 威爾士語(yǔ)的昵稱)

來自古英語(yǔ)nest,來自PIE*nisdos,鳥巢，來自*ni,向下，詞源同beneath,*sed,坐，詞源同sit.即坐的地方，落腳的地方，引申詞義鳥巢，鳥窩。

nest

nest: [OE] Etymologically, a nest is a place for ‘sitting down’. It is a very ancient word, and traces its history all the way back to Indo- European *nizdo-, a compound formed from *ni ‘down’ (source of English beneath and nether) and *sed- (ancestor of English sit). From it came English nest (a word shared by German and Dutch), and also Latin nīdus ‘nest’, source of Old French niche ‘nest’ – whence English niche [17]. Nestle [OE] was derived from nest.
=> beneath, nestle, nether, sit

nest (n.)

Old English nest "bird's nest, snug retreat," also "young bird, brood," from Proto-Germanic *nistaz (cognates: Middle Low German, Middle Dutch nest, German Nest), from PIE *nizdo- (cognates: Sanskrit nidah "resting place, nest," Latin nidus "nest," Old Church Slavonic gnezdo, Old Irish net, Welsh nyth, Breton nez "nest"), probably from *ni "down" + *sed- (1) "to sit" (see sedentary).

Used since Middle English in reference to various accumulations of things (such as a nest of drawers, early 18c.). Nest egg "retirement savings" is from 1700, originally "a real or artificial egg left in a nest to induce the hen to go on laying there" (c. 1600).

nest (v.)

Old English nistan "to build nests," from Proto-Germanic *nistijanan, from the source of nest (n.). The modern verb is perhaps a new formation in Middle English from the noun. Related: Nested; nesting.

1. As soon as the two chicks hatch, they leave the nest burrow.

兩只小鳥一出殼就離開了巢穴。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The nest contained eight little mice that were naked and blind.

窩里有8只還沒長(zhǎng)毛、眼睛尚未睜開的小老鼠。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The actual nest is a work of art.

真實(shí)的鳥巢十分精致。

來自柯林斯例句

4. a bird's nest with two eggs in it

內(nèi)有兩只鳥蛋的鳥窩

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

5. a nest of thieves

賊窩

來自《權(quán)威詞典》