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- a structure or place made or chosen by a bird for laying eggs and sheltering its young鸟巢, 鸟窝。
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- a place where an animal or insect breeds or shelters巢, 窝, 穴：
an ants' nest.
一个蚁穴。
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- a person's snug or secluded retreat or shelter（人的）窝, 窟; 温床。
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- a bowl-shaped object likened to a bird's nest（与鸟巢相似的）碗状物体：
potato nests filled with okra.
土豆盏盛羊角豆。
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- a place filled with or frequented by undesirable people or things窝点, 巢穴：
a nest of spies.
一个特务窝点。
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- a set of similar objects of graduated sizes, made so that each smaller one fits into the next in size for storage（由大到小可依次套叠的）一套：
a nest of tables.
一套桌子。
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- no obj.(of a bird or other animal) use or build a nest（鸟或其他动物）筑巢：
the owls often nest in barns
猫头鹰经常把巢筑在谷仓中
as adj. nesting do not disturb nesting birds.不要打扰筑巢的鸟儿。
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- with obj.（常作be nested）fit (an object or objects) inside a larger one使（物体）套叠于更大的物体之中：
the town is nested inside a large crater on the flanks of a volcano.
这座城镇坐落在火山侧坡一处大的火山口内。
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- no obj.(of a set of objects) fit inside one another（一套物件）逐个套叠：
Russian dolls that nest inside one another.
一套可依次套叠的俄罗斯套娃。
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- (especially in computing and linguistics) place (an object or element) in a hierarchical arrangement, typically in a lower position（尤作电脑和语言学用语）嵌套（物体, 成分）：
as adj. nested organisms classified in a series of nested sets在一系列嵌套组中被加以分类的有机体
a nested relative clause.
一个嵌套的关系从句。
派生词
nestful
noun （pl. -fuls）nest-like
adjective词源