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
adapter brick
aphronia
axogenesis
bagataway
break delay
carmona retusa
check ring
come through
commissioners of audit
constancio
contest a prize
cosurveillance
crosscheckers
cyclic program
deed of family arrangement
Delcassé, Mts.
digitis
disk mirroring
dispergator
dissection block
divergence half angle
Dubois's abscess
elbowless
eyeball group
fireone
flight plan
fricandels
general guidance
genus martynias
geodynamic factor
gestio
graphitizing
gravitational condensation
guard sheet
hayey
HEXOPAL
hydrocarbon functional groups
ibra
imbricate structure
insecticide tolerance
isopach strike
jonell
kachcheri
Kiltimagh
lie at the lurch
low-temperature cabinet
LTH
Man City
manometric capsule
maritime hegemony
measuring engine
Medvezh'yegorsk
memorous
memory scan option
mine's hypothesis
mohogany
Montfort-sur-Meu
mopokes
National Traffic System
odd-enen nucleus
on the loaf
optical focus switch
organopathies
paint-brushes
pansexualization
patented steel wire
pernicity
Pharbitis hederacea L.
photo-electrotype
physiotherapy
Pick's bundle
plane of sharpest focus
prepyloric vein
primary cutaneous aspergillosis
Puccinia lactucae-repentis
red quebracho (aspidosperma quebracho colorada)
removal efficiency
respiration quotient
retire into
safety man
scurve
sealed dust-exhaust system
seichometer
Serpone
silverhorn
six to one
sketch block
stepped hardening
sulzer
super finishing
supercalenders
SuperFAT
taken up arms
TDIG
thamnophiluss
theanthroposophy
ultraglossy
urcs
video separator unit
wadkins
wattful power
waxylooking