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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2-furylmethanethiol
abnormal water level
acid chrome blue r
aeratable
aerobies
aftersection
agassi-sampras
air sword
arghness
be friendly with sb
behaviorwise
bohler
cam lever shaft
candiano
canvernous porosity
chain gear
chromic acid battery
chrysocerca formosana
cleome serrulatas
coat trees
colonnettes
conario-hypophyseal
conglomerate stratum
cross-entry
cystosarcoma of breast
Debye shielding distance
dentes draconis
douche dick
dummies
eccentricity ratio
eighteenpences
eightsomes
enerves
eng-lish
erbigage
exobatany
exposure control
fabricated textile
falling tone
false cirrus pouch
fixed suspender
fuzzy graph theory
gauging roll
ginned
Gonds
Haig, Douglas
hcu
Homo erectus leakeyi
inflow of fund
Japan Central Standard Time
Jobism
Juncus sikkimensis
laide
land-dwellings
line-stretcher phase shifter
logic box
LVEDC
material specifications
metagraphics
molecular transition
Moscovici
Mosla pauciflora
muon beam
NECTARINIDAE
nematolosa nasus
nonbureaucratic
offsites
once-respected
one-onone
piling device
pivoted-bucket conveyer
polonium tetrachloride
population shift
precipitation fractionation
proportional unit of middle finger
pulsed magnetic field apparatus
purple glass
radio communication service
railway letter
rewipe
river birches
rotten egg gas
sand filtering
selector-repeater
ship-based aircraft
sinking funds bonds
ska punk
snacking down
source transformer
south-eastwardly
St Bartholomew's Day massacre
SUV Democrat
tip-seal
top digit
tragar
transport agreements
twenty - four hours
us shield
Walking time-bomb
wide-where
wishing bone
xem