quail

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  • n.
    鹌鹑
    鹌鹑肉
    <美俚>女大学生
  • vi.
    沮丧
    畏缩,胆怯
    感到恐惧
  • vt.
    使沮丧
    使畏缩

单词词源

quail 鹌鹑

拟声词,模仿这种鸟叫的声音。

双语例句

1. From plants to quail , life of all stripes seems to need gravity to work properly
从植物到鹌鹑,各种类型的生命似乎都需要引力才能正常生活和工作。
2. The russians , oddly , did not quail .
奇怪的是,俄罗斯并没有畏缩。
3. For openers , quail eggs in aspic with caviar was a tidbit that a surviving diner had enjoyed in titanic 's a la carte restaurant that fatal evening .
开胃菜,我们点了鹌鹑蛋,鱼子酱和肉冻--那个致命的晚上,泰坦尼克号的餐厅里就是提供了这些食物。
4. The deal was apparently struck when exxon 's chief executive , rex tillerson , entertained bob simpson , xto 's boss , at a quail hunt on company land in texas .
这笔交易看上去是在埃克森美孚公司首席执行官雷克斯蒂勒森在其得克萨斯州公司土地上为招待xto的老板鲍勃辛普森而举行的鹌鹑狩猎活动时达成的。
5. " As thomasville is really the centre of quail hunting , there are many collectors of dog paintings there , " says secord .
西科德表示:“由于托马斯威尔确实是鹌鹑狩猎中心,那里有很多犬画收藏者。”

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