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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Acadia Valley
accrued by period
air defense indentification zone (adiz)
alienisation
amplidyne
appomattox
artemisia anomala
as easy as shifting a pyramid a yard
asbestos-cement filler strip
at the fore
axiomization in economics
azimuth navigation system
balance of international indebtedness
be all legs
bead edge
bed formation
Bessemer steel
blushers
brachypelvic
breaks wind
buffing bruise
capped quartz
catches my drift
change frequency
chassis stop
chill area
chocolate sundae
cornule
corpuscular philosophy
creditors' ledger
david and goliath
dembe
dry papule
dye penetrant flaw testing
electric taximeter
encephalic dngioma
engine-driven set
fines content
force plane
governor pump
graphite-schist
guacharo
gutter punks
guttural consonant
ideal integer
idler roll
inlet strainer
lactal
log-house
long-term investment project
lunzer
maldoms
Manoiloff's tests
maximum available output of power system
maximum section coefficient
mechanism of doping effect
meridiths
mesially
mesocole
middle colic lymph nodes
mors serumalis
naor
nightmare before christmas
non-terminal-related msdb
nonrenewables
obtusialactone
official commission
ordanchite
organization by location
parallel type
pegmatolite(orthoclase)
porcupine provision
prosome
pupal parasite
reducible differential equation
relaxation property
repetency
residual vibration
rock burst shock
rocket engines
runscorers
safety evaluation report
sails
secondary palate
series storage battery
short-circuited feeder
smut funguss
social-work
Stanovlyanka
stick-ups
store interface link
subgovernments
tank proficiency course
taplins
top billing
total differential form
underground communication
vouchering
Wenjian
wild haggises
Xenophyophorea
Young's prism