| 词汇 | leave/fly the nest |
| 释义 | leave/fly the nestleave/fly the nest to leave your parents’ home and start living somewhere else when you are an adult 搬出父母家，离家独立 Both daughters were ready to fly the nest. 两个女儿都准备好离家独立生活。 Examples from the Corpus leave/fly the nest• It is so rarely when all the fledglings have left the nest, to have them all together again.• When the host leaves the nest, the cuckoo makes its approach in a long, silent hawk-like glide.• Barn owls leave the nest at two to three months and are sexually mature at one year.• She usually builds on the shores of an estuary and there she sits devotedly, seldom leaving the nest.• Once deposited, she leaves the nest and he immediately fertilizes the eggs.• Unfortunately for her, the host bird showed no inclination to leave the nest.• After about three weeks, the young cuckoo is ready to leave the nest.• If, however, the host appears reluctant to leave the nest, the cuckoo has a more direct approach. → leave/fly the nest at nest1(1) |
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