laying nest

基本解释

When the workers are able to bring in food from outside the nest, the queen devotes the rest of her life to laying eggs.
当工人长成后可以外出寻回食物时，蚁后就把后半生的时间都用来产卵。
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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.
尽管有具威胁性的爪子，长椎龙妈妈在筑巢时礽保持着高度的组织性，这可能暗示着她们产蛋后会将其整理好。
A student checks on the nest he and his classmates made for the laying hens.
一名学生正在检查为母鸡造的鸡窝。

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