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. tibialis posterior
Acutil-S
admissible curve
amaurotic nystagmus
attitudes toward feminism scale
aureothricin
Bird unit
blacksmith's slag
blue drawers
boot protocol
breast-feed
bring sth in
bromidrosiphobia
bursa bicipitoradialis
business result
came at
cast aluminum
cell radio
center of lateral pressure
chairmats
circle of perpetual occultation
clairaudience
curve of weights
cutting pick-up with high pressure water
Daunoblastina
deplumes
design demonstration test
direct distillation gasoline
direct grants
direct narration
double-edged sword
dull colony
Elepsin
entered by location
evidenciary
exhaust gear
file definitionmacroinstruction
flared union
foveal vision
furance volume
g-scope
gladiatorism
goddess-ships
halching
hourcircle
illecebrous
insufficient privileges
international tender
international videoconference service
interphrasal
iron(ii) benzoate
kitchen arrangement
mandalic
marine noise
mechanical centrifugal speed governor
metasymbol
molten glass
Nagler effect
New York State
nonelongated
off peak energy
one word value
oven-dried soil
paradoxes of Zeno
perysshe
Piralgo
precision encoding and pattern recognition
preoral region
preshape
push-pull driver
radialinlet
recontamination
reduced de Broglie wavelength
reinforced product
relative value of strategies
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right thinking
risorse
Rock Spring
rotating jig for welding
Santa Rosa del Norte
shallows
Sibol
skin-flick
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sunkyong
synodical period
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telestations
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three-way catalyst
Tiffany, Charles Lewis
toothshell
untoward effect
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versse
vessal
waterton-glacier international peace park
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windown
Wyssen
yellow