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 matter of common practice
age life method
alarming device
alpha-saphylolysin
aluminosilicate fibre
anchor rope
Annsborough
approximate absolute temperature
archontates
armature of relay
artery of the penis bulb
as-is
barnies
beadworking
board insurer
bruchuss
bulboventricular loop
calcium bentonite
capitals of italy
carbon-free stainless steel
Chijiwa
chin bristle
colour lighting
contracting officer
cumulative failure
curved isobar
Czecho-Slovakian
density of flux
diphetarsone-spiramycin
dropping vial
earth-friendly
Ecarazine
elective culture
electric resistance thermometre
fascia massetrica
fetwah
fiber communication
finite dimensional compensator
French knickers
Hishimonus sellatus
identification cards
insurance funds
jump list
knock the bottom out of
Kusan-ni
laughen
less than normal refraction
Maytenus garanbiensis
median control chart
musculi papillares septales
Nazimova, Alla
New Zealand spinaches
Newton's formula
nonconservative waste effluent
Normal-form
one who knows all the answers
organizations of the oppressed on earth
organs of hearing
overcompensate
OVTR
para-relations
pentacetylglucose
pentapetes phoenicea l.
pickup points
piquets
polyphas
polysomaty
polysulfone
Prajekan
Presbyterian Church
pulse dispersion
quotidially
radionavigation mobile station
realistic capacitor
reference to my radio
retarded fundamental solution
Rosselli-Guilenetti
rpg (radiation protection guide)
sabous
shinguard
slushy
spring off
tapered foot roller
Taxillus kaempferi
templepatricks
terminal tentacle
tetronic acid
the first reading
theopompus
thiol-modified rubber
thioltransferases
thioproperazine
train dispatching telephone
ullman reaction
unamerican
Vaala
value of the game
vendor part number
White Sunday
Whitmore
X-ray picture
Zelah