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
abjuration oaths
adult diarrhea rotavirus
alkaptonase
auditing reporting standard
August-Wilhelm-Friedrich-Land
balance sheets of banks
bathrobe
black power
blossomy
briceni (brichany)
cables-length
callout
chahal
character decoder
clatty
claw bolt
clearing day
conserver
cross balancing
cybertalk
cybory
days sales in inventory
di-(2-ethylhcxyl)phthalate
double-billings
drive-by-wire
dunitic
dynamic reference model
effy
endocardial murmur
energy-producings
enstore
faldore
field plot experiment
floresiensis
Foreground process
forepart construction
gear slide sleeve
general mean
genus Feijoa
GFH
global wind system
Halloran
hawksbill turtles
hemal arch
Hermissenda crassicornis
HHRH
horseback ridings
hypochloridria
imbankation
immunoinadequacy
improvement works
Inarijärvi
incertitude
is good to
Katupa
Kherba
labour-services
law of electrostatic attraction
lime-sand brick
loadlines
maeghts
magnetostrictive
maidchildren
Michelia champaca
mid-latitude season
motor test stand
movable vice jaw
on the water side
one sided eccentric drive
open-loop harmonic response
ordinary rate
organization men
outline inboard profile
own-brand
pea coats
pressure-pad lift-out
production memory
providentially
Regio cubitalis anterior
self starting method
sense-organ
separated formal scheme
shakablest
sheathers
sialagogic
south tropical disturbance
special type grab bucket
split-attention
struts your stuff
syndrome of bleeding due to collateral injury
tanghinia
transplantively
TrEPS
tricot stitch
TRTHS
tufte
tyringham
unplastic
valve components
weld thermal cycle
welding mill
Zostera asiatica