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
Acetazolam
action scheme
AGPs
albumen sac
algal disease
anchress
anthropophuism
baculere
body dysmorphic disorder
bounce up
caligraphies
Castanopsis jucunda
cataxia
Cephalomyia
chugholes
co-operativenesses
colony fission
combined voltage current transformers
come tardy off
construction of double eyelid
cruchard
curleth
dazzlements
detransition
dry-milling
dynamic acceleration
electrosteel
end-position
entailed interest
filter insertion loss
forage for
friendslist
gas-hazard meter
German nozzle
guisasola
hand-sale
have an account with the bank
Hickmann
high-bulk fibre
homoxylous
hypophosphorylated
imbrie
inbox rot
ion-exchange equilibrium
just-in-time politics
khalili
Kiselgel A
lakehouses
leaf size class
ledger analysis sheet
low pressure admission
lumbar nerves (or lumbar spinal nerve)
lycopodium-oleic acid
macroclimatic
mass acceleration force
mechanically-polished substrate
Meiyu front
mickum
microscopic lifetime
modulator demodulator
morganstern
mpss
Mulifanua
natsume
nemoglossata
non-secure
norme fondamentale
not having any
olea medicata
onoclea orientalis
orientation factor
out-organized
outprays
pantyr
Paramount Clause on Bill of Lading
policy clause
punchcard
quarterly issue
rainfall frequency
rapid rise
reactivity-insertion accident
riq'a
rough handling
ryacolite
scended
selvage motion
specific enquiry
stack push-down
sum-of-the-years'-digits method of depreciation
symmetrical fold
tangshenoside
telepresence robot
theater-goers
theory of tidal channel
thermodynamics of critical point
trachelomonas pavlovskoensis
true conic projection
tungsten (w)
vibrational energy of molecule
vote sb out
well-composed
wild grass land