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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acceleration in yaw
acrocephalosyndactyly
adversariness
Apgar score, Apgar rating
arboreums
arrival function
arrogance of technical expertise
articulated spindle
automatic block equipment
babuyanes
badunkadunk
ballistic missile defence
barber-surgeon
bell-mouth ventilator
bruncheon
cancer morphology
capitellate
coaxial jet
column stabilized drilling unit
crow corn
DDRs
debt-restructuring
e-communication
efferent artery of glomerulus
Enther-Doudoroff pathway
facet fracture
facial atrophy
fios de ovos
flying veins
fold fissures
fron
frustrater
Georgiyevskoye
graphical estimator
haemogamasid
hard-bound notebook
hardness of paint film
heavy cropping
high lanthanum rare earth chloride
honey plant
househubbies
icterohepatitis
Imosec
intensive market study
irregular menstruation hysteroptosis
isodiametric crystal
jackshafts
John Mercer
knouse
leyte i.
liquid-head analog computer
lossages
low speed high torque hydraulic pump
low-bed
magnifying glasses
mcdougal
media players
Melampyrum
mizen boom
monetary conference
nagoya silk
normalizing annealing treatment
notedly
Novyy Karachay
otol
P450c17
Pilzcin
pre consultation
pre-arcing time
Progestasert
prolater
pylon eight
queerity
rail flat car
roast beef plants
rohu
rouget de lisle
ruffling
run someone ragged
semidomesticated
separation specification table
short term curing
slauke
sothron
spiral arm tracer
strong mayor government
sucker bomb
surface-mounteds
thank for
toy-town
track hoist
trochiform
tu nung
ulence
undersynchronous braking
underwiring
up to one's ears
venae emissaria condyloidea
wire-drawing compound
x-radioray absorptiometry
year dot