音标:[kweɪlz] ;
n. 鹌鹑( quail的名词复数 ); 鹌鹑肉
v. 害怕, 发抖, 畏缩( quail的第三人称单数 )
n flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
n small gallinaceous game birds
v draw back, as with fear or pain

quail的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. Suddenly the quail hunter threw his net over the remaining quails.很快鹌鹑猎手就把他的网撒到了剩下的鹌鹑上。
  2. But if you need a right quail, it has to be fleshly or it dries out too easily.不过要挑对新鲜鹌鹑,肉质要丰嫩,不然很容易干粗。

词汇搭配

  • Quail bronchitis virus鹌鹑支气管炎病毒, ...
  • quail egg鹌鹑蛋

经典引文

  • His eye..quails before so vast an outlook.

    出自:R. L. Stevenson
  • His keen and unpleasant glance travelled over them and made them quail beneath it.

    出自:E. Templeton
  • A weaker spirit might have quailed, or hid its head in the sand.

    出自:E. Eager
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adjacency channel frequency
airy isostatic hypothesis
algovite
allonym
analog correlator
antiozidant
aryl hydrocarbon
assiminea affinis
Attic code
average saturation
backspace character
bioclimate zonation
brake-efficiency
bronchial lymph gland
bummel
Burley Griffin, L.
Calumpit
Cantor-Bendixson theorem
capillaceus
Cassidy, Lake
cast mud at
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contagious diffusion
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darryl francis zanucks
disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome
distribution disk
doesn
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dunning process
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fibroglioma
fine craftsmanship
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flexible repeater housing
freezing mixtures
gaspe
gleanest
hemispheres of bulb of urethra
hydraulic excavator
ibmer
Ibwera
immunodouble
infratracheal
inlet period
integral reset controller
International Amateur Athletic Federation
interpersonal trust
it goes without saying
kurokawa
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male-ese
mark scanning document
mass energy parabola
Mbonda
megatomostethus crassicornis
modulus of rigidity
nephews-in-law
neurobeachin
nonoolitic
numeric variable
over-developments
paleoethnobotanist
Pinozan
piratism
pish posh
Platyhelminthes
pre-direct
Prunus pseudocerasus
radar altimetry area
reconquers
resolution theorem-proving
resultant pressure
saddlehorn
sample mean-square contingency
search surveillance
snickersnees
sorbothanes
souverain
start readout
start-stop telegraph distortion
subareolar abscess
Tall Ibrāhīm
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training data
triple pole reverser
uju
veracevine
vinyl hose
warmest
waymentation
Weinbergerite
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working family
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yanked out
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zigzag flight