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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a hostages to history
air-setting binder
alleculodes sauteri
allocation policy
Analogeticists
antidiphtheric
basket-wound coil
bassets
BCG vaccine
Benda's staining
Burdekin Falls
cab-tyre sheath (rubber sheath)
Carche, Sa.del
Ceratocephalus
CHKDSK
cork-boards
cormudgeon
corporate profits
cost-of-living allowance
d'orsay (pump)
Dead men tell no tales.
Delnice
delusters
double coater
dust sampling
dyche
epigraphers
epilepsia diurna
eurythmicss
evidentiary facts
excavated basin
faxmodem
Feringi,Feringhee
forward flight
garden chervil
grooveling
haftanin
hapludults
Heritiera macrophylla
hotel-styles
inactivation
instant picture
interallelic recombination
It was that
karriem
kiprono
line and staff
low-reflectance
Mammy Water
manganin heater
metoxadiazone
micrograms
microstage
Minter City
monocentrids
monthly average method
mouted abrasive points
mowsome
naristillae mentholis et thymolis
nonaffected
nonstaining
notes rediscounted
observation apparatus
Oidium lactis
outstanding claims
oxygen maximum layer
paser
payment by cash
phainopepla
placitory
platinotron
pozz(u)olan cement
proer
proprietary
pulse response analyzer
questorship
realization of a temperature scale
reimbued
reuptake
school governor
Seebeck coefficient for substances a and b
silyl radical
soft-center steel mouldboard
soot-meat
special character
submerged tube condenser
surface band
the-board
trichter pluton
trithioacetone
tuberculosis of lunge
TWT (traveling wave tube)
typicities
vertical teeth
Vojmil
waste recovery
water cone
week ending
working inventory
written languages
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