短语搭配
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bustard quail
花斑三趾鹑
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quail season
鹌鹑季节;鹌鹑的季节
双语例句
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There are many deadly viruses in this wild quail.
这种野生鹌鹑身上有很多致命病毒。
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He particularly quailed at facing the terrible reality unprepared.
他特别害怕毫无准备地面对惨不忍睹的现实。
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My heart quailed at the thought of confronting him.
我一想到要面对他,心里就发怵。
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The eggs of quails are considered to be a delicacy.
鹌鹑蛋被视为美味佳肴
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The very words make many of us quail.
这些话让我们当中的许多人都胆怯了。
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Just in front of you was a quail with its chicks.
就在你面前有一只带着一群幼雏的鹌鹑。
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On the other side of the rise, an endless impenetrable thicket of poison oak and coyote brush hides quail and other members of its guild.
在另一边,则生活着无边浓密的毒橡林和藏着鹌鹑的郊狼灌木丛以及其他成员。
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The Russians, oddly, did not quail.
奇怪的是,俄罗斯并没有畏缩。
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I get tough, quail get dry.
我会变强硬,鹌鹑会变干涩。
近义词
vi.
recoil fromshrink back from
百科
1. quail([kweɪl]),英文单词。作名词为鹌鹑。作动词为害怕,胆怯。短语搭配有quail season(鹌鹑季节)。例句为“Actually, they are just quail eggs.(其实那只是鹌鹑蛋。)” quail相关不及物动词近义词有recoil from。
释义
n.
a small short-tailed Old World game bird resembling a tiny partridge, typically having brown camouflaged plumage
鹑,鹌鹑。
a small or medium-sized New World game bird, the male of which has distinctive facial markings
北美鹑。
v.
feel or show fear or apprehension
害怕,胆怯
词源
"Middle English: from Old French quaille, from medieval Latin coacula (probably imitative of its call). late Middle English (in the sense ‘waste away, come to nothing’): of unknown origin. "