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
a Homer
all airplanes
amynthas exiguus aquilonius
Andersson, Johan Gunnar
appellant mode
applied photographic engineering
Beaconsfield, Earl of
bedchambers
best before
binary fan-in technique
brokling
bryohaplocladium angustifolium
bulbar type respiration
carcerulus
CML (current mode logic)
concrete bleeding
count sth out
cuttingtool
Cyanoferrite
data-dependent access
deep femoral vein
dendrobium crispulum k.kimura et. migo.
design rule
disenamor
electric slot
enhearsed
epizoi(ti)c
Euphorbia neriifolia
everyaspect of forestry
extrinsic tinnitus
feed-back control
fetch rear
fore bridge
Forenol
free electrolyte
free-jet stream
general x-rays
Gottschalk Of Orbais
grizes
Huachacalla
iCalendar
index-number of wages
inherent error
interstella
justification service digit
keep an eye out for something
kfc
knight of the lady
lactic(acid)dehydrogenase
lanso
liner perforated
lycoperdon pyriforme
marmulade
mean circulatory filling pressure
mercury resonance radiation
Mere words will not fill a bushel.
meridian spacing
metal semiconductor contact
Mezcazline
milky stage
mucks up
multi-terminal hvdc transmission system
multilevel algorithm of address transformation
multivariable feedback system
nonaddicted
oil motor
oryctere
passion-dock
position influence
prehistoric culture
process status
pruning hooks
pumped
pyranopterin
quartz-porphyrite
reactive voltage
representative-number
rotor heads
sansepolcro
Sidorovsk
sloshing
smoke attenuation
spectral pyrometer
standard railway gauge
stipa viridula
superpubs
synchrofaxes
talked
Tanama
time of irradiation
typecorine
unflorid
unsavourest
unseamanlike
unwallet
validamycin A
visual-aural
vt100
vulcabond
wall emission
warning sign
wtbs