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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archethallus
autologous bone marrow transplantation
baggins
base insertion
Big Island
bioship
bose einstein statistics
Bosporus Bosphorus
brush ... teeth
built-in fitting
came to pieces
carascoes
carried of dry goods
carrying value
chain initiator
Chimaltitan
chopped steel wire
cock-horse
cockneycality
coenobitism
cold reheated steam pressure
collapsibe
congealment
curiam
cyclic poet
defense satelite communication system (dscs)
defoliating insect
degree of tacticity
Diaminone
drawrods
dutch-processed
dylan thomass
eigenstructures
Emines
formyl acetic acid
gas tight container
geads
Glaucium fimbrilligerum
ground state beta disintegration
halks
handsoap
hot clean criticality
in disrepair
in quest
ineducation
international henry
kabb
kakidrosis
kids will be kids
Leptoglossus
lizas
look up to somebody
lubrican
maggots
marginal seller
marginal spray
material editor
Maugerville
maximum line velocity
mercury-containing sludge
monotone
normal plotting accuracy
norvasc
nose length
ochred
oiled cloth
Opachevka
Pharm.
plate nail
polyvision
prandini
puppet-shows
push-pull error
put something in perspective
Pyrus malus
recall switch
recycle gas compressor
Risly prism
salt-secreting gland
sangrail
sayyids
sea pusses
seborrhoeic dermatitis
semiinsulated
servocontol
single dege blade
slotted hex head screw
spiral ridge
starsearch
subindices
swallowers
sweet vetches
syndrome of corpus striatum
technonerds
thermal response
travel(l)ing speed indicator
unforeseen events
ve
vulture capitalists
world-touring liner
Wurio
Xiengkhuang