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
08059
agminated
Amamee
anxiety reactions
arc magmatism
arthropleuron
atomistic fallacy
back-to-the-school movement
bankukri cotton
base-line terminal station
basic indicator
Bendopa
bloemspruit
bretzel
brothered
Bulbophyllum affine
C.E.T.
call it a draw
carmakers
co-nourish
coil heating
cross guarantee
cultural resource geography
curved shock
Defense Contract Management Agency
direct lesion
dry mixing
EC-GC
explicit
from all quarter
globomyeloma
gujarati
heavy armature
hemoglobinphilous bacteria
hexatomic molecule
Hickman County
historical agent
huminah
hummer electric screen
index number of value construction output
indirect distance surveying
interim audit work of notes receivable
jet exhaustion
leakage of fuel
Limnodromus
long-sleevest
magnet telephone
majorships
manducate
maternology
Merioneth(shire)
messing
mid-span spectral inversion
mixture of distribution
mycoplasma bovirhinis
noise measurement
non-inheritedness
nonpolishing
not take kindly to sth
odor nuance
oil resistant primer
old beau
open one's mind to
order-issuing procedure
oscillating fringe pattern
parametric infrared image converter
paratenovite
pleurocele
polarized cell technique
polyinvagination
pot-holer
pressurization blower
pulse control factor
pus bag
ratio of size reduction
repagula
ring insert
rouler
scare up something
scooped basin
selective gear shifting
service payments as percentage of exports of goods and services
shinwari
short squeeze
silent power source installation
smaller multangular bone
smoke box superheater
soil evolution
special adviroty message
square hewn
standard metropolitan area
steady state characteristic
streptococcal sore throat
to bite the hand that feeds
travel-time ratio
trident C-4
tryals
two-dimensional motion
uns
utly
vision defect
Y connection