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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acetabuloplasty
adeps lanae hydrosus
AFG
antiallergy
anticarcinoma
apothecaries' bill
Armona
arsorane
astrosphaeriella exorrhiza
auditing deficiency
aurich
automatic ringdown
background pollution
board zither
by-pass tube
bystrzyca r.
carrier to interference ratio
cestis
citrovorum
coefficient of anisotropy
color run
constant-effect model
contact lever
counter air
craythorne
deck grip
delayed-action lifting device
dislocation of small joint of thoracic vertebrae
echap
enticeable
estan
fantasied
fedary
feenin'
for-old
formamidino-amidino-
frost gangrene
get the heave-ho
ghosted
gospa
header section
HQMC
icono-
inductive analysis
interfertile
internal auditing system
ixelles
jebel ali
khajurahoes
Kipinä
linear electromagnetic solenoid
lumpia
macchia
measurement of luminous flux
mill price
mitotic mapping
multi-organ
Nanni di Banco
neutral zone
New York Rangers
ninja foots
non-career
notice of claim clause
offend against
orientation stability
orthomnium
oxitriptyline
pacemaker battery
past mistress
percruciate
phorocytosis
plane layer
polymer plastic
pre-disease
priele
primary dip
radiosonde ground equipment
reducing surface
refrigerated dough
scfw
see anchor
self-rotations
serra
sideropenia
singlepeaked
sivering
smoothing filter er
sodium-vapor lamps
specialized common carrier (scc)
suck in
sugar bowls
Tanaka Koichi
the younger generation
thickskinned
torch-song
traditional music
transient phenomenon on switching
unmossed
whitify
xanthematin
Yushania brevis
zoned-air distribution