• n. 嬰兒；未離巢的雛鳥
• v. 安頓下來；筑巢；把…安置于巢中（nestle的ing形式）

nest,鳥巢，-ling,小詞后綴。即還不能離巢的小鳥。

nestling (n.)

late 14c., "bird too young to leave the nest," from nest (n.) + diminutive suffix -ling.

1. Nearby, nestling in the hills, was the children's home.

孩子們的家就在附近的山里。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Across hills and rivers , they walked more than two hundred kilometres and arrived at a little hamlet nestling in the green mountains.

他們跋山涉水,步行二百余公里,來到了一個(gè)青山環(huán)抱的小村莊.

來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. Someone was turning over papers , making a nestling noise.

有誰在那里翻著什么紙張,悉悉窣窣的.

來自漢英文學(xué) - 中國現(xiàn)代小說

4. Nearby, nestling in the hills, was the children's home.

孩子們的家就在附近的山里。

來自辭典例句

5. I guessed they had a nestling.

我猜到,是它們,有了雛兒.

來自漢英文學(xué) - 現(xiàn)代散文