quail

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n. 鹌鹑 vi. 胆怯, 畏缩

发音

US /kweɪl/
AU /kweɪl/

词形变化

quails 复数 quails quails 三单 quailing 现在分词 quailed 过去式 quailed 过去分词

别名

queal quele

教材释义与例句

名词

鹌鹑

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.

    鹌鹑

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    The meat from this bird eaten as food.

    不可数 可数
  3. 3.

    A prostitute.

    可数 废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To waste away; to fade, to wither.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To daunt or frighten (someone).

    古体 及物

    To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.

  3. 3.

    To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.

    不及物
  4. 4.

    Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.

    不及物
  5. 1.

    To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

phasianid wildfowl

下位词 4

partridge bobwhite California quail Old World quail

整体词 1

bevy
动词

同义词 7

shrink funk flinch recoil cringe wince squinch

上位词 1

move

下位词 2

retract shrink back

相关短语

quail hawk quail pipe quail dove quail pipes quail doves quail hawks Quail Hollow quail-dove Gambel's quail 黑腹翎鹑 common quail 鹌鹑 Montezuma quail pectoral quail dying quail California quail [网络] 加州鹌鹑 mountain quail [网络] 山鹌鹑；叫高山鹑

词源

From Middle English quayle, quaile, quaille, from Anglo-Norman quaille, from Late Latin quaccola (“quail”). (prostitute): So called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

来源：wiktionary