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.
當(dāng)工人長成后可以外出尋回食物時，蟻后就把后半生的時間都用來產(chǎn)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.
盡管有具威脅性的爪子，長椎龍媽媽在筑巢時礽保持著高度的組織性，這可能暗示著她們產(chǎn)蛋后會將其整理好。
A student checks on the nest he and his classmates made for the laying hens.
一名學(xué)生正在檢查為母雞造的雞窩。

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