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
actual thrust
alberobelloes
alternative digital system
ampullary canals of lorenzini
argentaffin-negative
asimilobrine
average absolute puulse amplitude
average flow of domestic hot-water supply
be all dolled up and no place to go
be out of touch
bescurvy
Bordj Welvert
brachelytra
bulk carrier (bc)
burst forth
buttercup family
cd-interactive
class-aaa
clearance limit for overhead contact wire
commoditable
communications industry
concretize
cross strain
decolourising
degree of swelling
Demochristian
detrimental resistance
diarthric
dominelli
dried shark's lips
effusive flow
eilectrophysiology
electromagnetic energy
escroll
eulogization
fidler
fighting top
forest thinning
fuel experimental station
GDP dissociation stimulator
generation or cohort rate
give someone the brush
gumpy
h.ramirez
hard-to-cut material
hemiarthrosis
hepato-enteric circulation
historization
hose thread
Hévié
i-control
iambe
icrt (international community radio taipei)
initial main sequence star
isosceles trapezoids
Kalamazoo County
laytimes
learning by discovery
megaselia (aphiochaeta) grandipennis
metipranolol
modifier edit code
monoubiquitinations
native client
need one's head examining
nonconverter
normal growth
nose-wheel bay
order-made
orthotopic graft
package log
plan of land utilizaton
post-marxist
principle isotope
pseudoion
pyroglobulinemia
quincunxes
radio meteorograph
radon gas
rapid-scan monochromator
recrystallisation
region calcanea
rigidifying
San Martino di Lupari
serpentinous
she-bitches
shifting level
shottying
single side band
split stern hull form
suicide victims
sulfatase deficiency
surong
survival rate of fish fry
technocomplexes
three-step feed box
titanium carbonitride
triungulin
unalchemy
unsubscribes
veggetable electricity
walk the streets
whitegloved