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
4-MP
a quad
against one's will
analogous instrument
androsov
anteromedian seta
attenuated poliomyelitis vaccine
bacteriorhizae
basic mistake
binding chain
C2H4CL2
caisson pneumatic
carpet latexing machine
cinquecentist
classification statement
color-match
comptonization
cost calcuation
credit worthy
crystal-tipped
data word buffer
deaerator recirculation pipe
decrease in energy
deferred payment of interests on notes receivable
demulsion
dental engine
diderma testaceum
DXer
dysrythmias
electric motor driven butter
epidermolysis simplex
espy
Excoccariinae
face of joint
family Halictidae
free zone of harbour
frost-point temperature
generator control panel
grayii
green crop chopper blower
grinding attachment
head tone
heterogeneousness
hezzy
hush pipe
hypochordal rod
IBC (interbuilding coffin)
iiag
innocencies
invict
iron-red glaze
Ishimoto
keypunch error
lead zirconate titanate
legal heaven
level multiplicity
Ludovico
mean friction ra dius
minister to
misenite
modulating signal
neurosyphilitics
neutralising
night observation sight
Odaejin
orangier
order cost system
original magma
overhead distribution
payroll-tax
perfect reflection wall
rail layer
rare-plant
rimester
sandable
Scleroderma bovista
seasonally adjusted index
self-actuated
Small pickup truck
sonos memory cell
spermatoplasm
spring collet holder
spring lay
sprue-master
St-Selve
tases
Telemachus
the bank
the margins of
thrombocystis
top pruning
top-armour
transfer syntax
trinchieri
two-phase commitment protocol
unfold to
unite into
unless otherwise
wax pattern cluster
will-o'-the-wispy
workboxes
yahlin