quails

英 [kweɪlz]

美 [kweɪlz]

n.  鹌鹑; 鹌鹑肉
v.  感觉(或显出)恐惧; 胆怯; 畏缩
quail的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 鹌鹑
  Aquailis a type of small bird which is often shot and eaten.
  1. I've shot hundreds of quail with that gun.
     我用那只枪打死过几百只鹌鹑。
  2. Quailis the meat of this bird eaten as food.
     鹌鹑肉
  3. They dined off salmon, quail, and fruit.
     他们正餐吃的是鲑鱼、鹌鹑肉和水果。
• VERB 胆怯;畏缩;害怕;退缩
  If someone or something makes youquail, they make you feel very afraid, often so that you hesitate.
  1. The very words make many of us quail...
     这些话让我们许多人胆怯了。
  2. He told Naomi she was becoming just like Maya. Naomi quailed at the thought.
     他告诉娜奥米，她正变得和马娅一样。一想到这里，娜奥米便不寒而栗。

双语例句

• Objective To observe the effects of emodin on experimental fatty livers of quails.
  目的观察大黄素对鹌鹑实验性脂肪肝的影响。
• The Effect of Different Energy Level in Feed on Growth and Development of Quails before Laying Period
  饲粮能量水平对产蛋前鹌鹑生长发育的影响
• We're not hunting quails, are we?
  我们不是来猎杀野鸡的，对吗？
• And it was just in time too! Suddenly the quail hunter threw his net over the remaining quails.
  就在此时，猎人的网突然从天而降网住了所有仍在原地的鹌鹑。
• Pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins.
  雉；火鸡；松鸡；山鹑；鹌鹑；鸡；丛林火鸡；凤冠雉；麝雉。
• Blood samples collected from the wing vein of healthy pure yellow-feather egg quails were used to study the cellular morphology and physiology parameter of the blood of yellow-feather quails.
  利用采自纯系蛋用黄羽鹌鹑健康群体的血样，对黄羽鹌鹑的血液细胞学和主要血液生理学参数进行了研究。
• Inhibitory effect of Yi Bei Duo Huo Su on experimental atherosclerosis in quails
  贻贝多活素对鹌鹑实验性动脉粥样硬化的影响
• The hunter grabbed all the quails, stuffed them in his baskets, and took them home to his wife.
  猎人逮住所有鹌鹑塞满篮子，带回家交给妻子。
• He raised a large flock of quails.
  他养了一大群鹌鹑。
• A couple of quails crossing the road.
  一对鹌鹑穿过小路。