- A chicken is a domesticated bird that is raised on farms for meat or eggs. Many cities allow people to keep a few chickens in their yards as pets and egg layers.
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- n. 鸡肉；小鸡；
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1. Yes, it tastes like chicken.
是的，它的味道像鸡。
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2. They keep chickens in the back yard.
他们在后院养鸡。
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3. fried chicken,roast chicken
炸╱烧鸡
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4. chicken breasts
鸡胸脯肉
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5. chicken and chips
炸鸡块配炸薯条
- chicken (n.) Old English cicen (plural cicenu) "young of the domestic hen, the young of any bird;" by early Middle English, "any chicken," regardless of age, from Proto-Germanic *kiukinam (source also of Middle Dutch kiekijen, Dutch kieken, Old Norse kjuklingr, Swedish kyckling, German Küken "chicken"), from root *keuk- (echoic of the bird's sound and possibly also the root of cock (n.1)) + diminutive suffixes.
- chicken (v.) "to back down or fail through cowardice," 1943, U.S. slang, from chicken (n.), almost always with out (adv.). Related: Chickened; chickening.
chick·en ★ / ˈtʃɪkɪn ; NAmE ˈtʃɪkɪn / noun , verb , adjective chicken chickens chickened chickening noun ★ 1 ★ [countable ] a large bird that is often kept for its eggs or meat 鸡 ◆ They keep chickens in the back yard. 他们在后院养鸡。 ◆ free-range chickens 自由放养的鸡 ☞compare cock , hen 2 ★ [uncountable ] meat from a chicken 鸡肉 ◆ fried/roast chicken 炸╱烧鸡 ◆ chicken stock/soup 原汁鸡汤；鸡汤 ◆ chicken breasts/livers/thighs 鸡胸脯肉╱肝╱大腿 ◆ chicken and chips 炸鸡块配炸薯条 ☞see also spring chicken IDIOMS a ˌchicken-and-ˈegg situation, problem, etc. a situation in which it is difficult to tell which one of two things was the cause of the other 鸡与蛋孰先难定的情况；因果难定的问题 play ˈchicken to play a game in which people do sth dangerous for as long as they can to show how brave they are. The person who stops first has lost the game. 比试胆量 ☞more at count v. , headless , home adv. verb PHRASAL VERB ˌchicken ˈout (of sth/of doing sth) ( informal) to decide not to do sth because you are afraid 因害怕而放弃；临阵退缩；胆怯 adjective [not before noun ] ( informal) not brave; afraid to do sth 胆怯；懦弱；怯懦 SYN cowardly chick·en / ˈtʃɪkɪn ; NAmE ˈtʃɪkɪn /
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