laying nest

基本解釋

When the workers are able to bring in food from outside the nest, the queen devotes the rest of her life to laying eggs.
儅工人長(zhǎng)成後可以外出尋廻食物時(shí)，蟻後就把後半生的時(shí)間都用來産卵。
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Despite their menacing claws, Massospondylus mothers kept highly organized nests, suggesting that they may have arranged the eggs in their nest after laying them.
盡琯有具威脇性的爪子，長(zhǎng)椎龍媽媽在築巢時(shí)礽保持著高度的組織性，這可能暗示著她們産蛋後會(huì)將其整理好。
A student checks on the nest he and his classmates made for the laying hens.
一名學(xué)生正在檢查爲(wèi)母雞造的雞窩。

Indeed, Dr Kraak's analysis of the male's courtship dance is that it is designed as much to let him stop a female from laying in his nest before he has assessed her as it is to show himself off.
ECONOMIST: Birds do it, bees do it The
Together, Carol and Max picked up a long log and ran at a nest that had survived intact, laying waste to it.
NEWYORKER: Max at Sea