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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学英语单词
al kidan
all bark and no bite
ambient-light filter
Anas querquedula
anionic cycloaddition
anterior columns of medulla oblongata
betamethasone
bother one's head with
buried thermometer
bursae iliaca subtendinea
calcareus
capitana
cess-pipe
class of vehicle
concussional
CS-2
discontinuous market
double furrow
ergometer exerciser
Europatent
European Laboratory for Particle Physics
expectance
Expresionist
extralymphatic
eztlite
fast buck
fingent
Fishing Creek
fortescues
game-point
garcinia
george macaulay trevelyans
gossibs
Haenam-gun
heat gain from appliance and equipment
heavy-ion fusion system
height of hydrocarbon pool
hemper thread
horizontal canal
hot-glue
incendiaries
inform of
intensity of cooling
irrealis mood
kampimeter
kossmatite
leading diagonals
lipovaccine
medmain
milksnake
minitrain
molecular asymmetry
muccus
mute as a fish
naphthylenebisazo
nonchronic
nonisotropic materials
nonlinear nework
nuclear centrai force
nuclear inclusion body
numerical phenetics
one train combined with another
outside back cover
parus monticolus
phase-to-earth overvoltage per unit
phrasal verb
picture defect
pittore
ppx
presymptomatically
primary indexing
pubofemoral ligament
quality assurance acceptance standards
raised beach
reached
rock borer
roof rock
sand star
satellite navigation service
scalariform vessel
slap on the side
small-sized hydropower station
smooth ... out
smoothness restrictions
sodium mercaptoacetate
special deposit
spicey
splash angle
subprioresses
sweating system
T2-topological group
trip cam
ullathornes
valve head
valve helmet mask
variorum
verticalis linguae
warp single weft triple
wet year
working languae
yell i.