fowl
fowl 英 [faʊl] 美 [faʊl]
n. 家禽；鸟；飞禽 vi. 打鸟；捕野禽
进行时:fowling 过去式:fowled 过去分词:fowled 第三人称单数:fowls 名词复数:fowls
- The noun fowl usually means domesticated birds kept for eating or producing eggs. If your friend brings you eggs from the chickens she keeps in her back yard, you can say that she has pet fowl.
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- n. 家禽；鸟；飞禽
- vi. 打鸟；捕野禽
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1. If we've redeemed this dangerous supplement for man, what about the fowl of the air and the beasts of the field?
我们人赎回了这危险的遗失，那么天空中的飞禽田野中的猛兽又如何？
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2. They contended that land animals that began to adapt to aquatic life would soon be neither fowl nor fish, incapable of surviving in either medium.
他们认为试图适应水上生活的陆地动物并非后来的家禽或鱼，无论哪种情况，他们都不可能侥幸活下来。
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3. The scientists explain that domestic fowl would certainly use a similar tactic, but normally they have fewer mating choices than their wild Swedish cousins.
科学家们解释说家禽当然会用同样的战术，但比起瑞典的野生堂亲通常它们可选择的交配对象少些罢了。
- fowl (n.) Old English fugel "bird, feathered vertebrate," from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, the general Germanic word for "bird" (source also of Old Saxon fugal, Old Frisian fugel, Old Norse fugl, Middle Dutch voghel, Dutch vogel, German vogel, Gothic fugls "a fowl, a bird"), perhaps a dissimilated form meaning literally "flyer," from PIE *pleuk-, from root *pleu- "to flow."
- fowl (v.) Old English fuglian "to catch birds," from the source of fowl (n.). Related: Fowled; fowling. Fowling-piece "gun used for shooting wildfowl" is from 1590s.
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