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 复数: quails 第三人称单数: quails 过去式: quailed 过去分词: quailed 现在分词: quailing 易混淆的单词: Quail
中文词源
quail 鹌鹑
拟声词,模仿这种鸟叫的声音。
quail 用法和例句
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。
The russians , oddly , did not quail .
奇怪的是,俄罗斯并没有畏缩。
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。
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 .