quail
quail 英 [kweɪl] 美 [kwel]
vi. 畏缩，胆怯；感到恐惧 n. 鹌鹑
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- Smaller than the chicken and not as well known as the pigeon, quail is like the often-overlooked middle child of the ground-dwelling bird family. Quail can also mean to cringe in fear or pain. So if you are a quail, you might quail at the thought of quail-hunting season.
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- vi. 畏缩，胆怯；感到恐惧
- n. 鹌鹑
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1. The next horizon: GM pigs, ducks, turkeys and quail.
下个目标：转基因猪、鸭子、火鸡和鹌鹑。
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2. Now a wind went out from the Lord and drove quail in from the sea.
有风从耶和华那里刮起, 把鹌鹑由海面刮来, 飞散在营边和营的四围;
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3. In the valley below ran a hungry dog, sniffing along the ground as if in search of mice or quail.
从山谷里跑来了一条饥肠辘辘的狗，它沿路嗅探，仿佛在寻找小耗子或者小鹌鹑。
- quail (n.) migratory game bird, late 14c. (early 14c. as a surname (Quayle), from Old French quaille (Modern French caille), perhaps via Medieval Latin quaccula (source also of Provençal calha, Italian quaglia, Old Spanish coalla), or directly from a Germanic source (compare Dutch kwakkel, Old High German quahtala "quail," German Wachtel, Old English wihtel), imitative of the bird's cry. Or the English word might be directly from Proto-Germanic. Slang meaning "young attractive woman" first recorded 1859.
- quail (v.) c. 1400, "have a morbid craving;" early 15c., "grow feeble or sick;" mid-15c., "to fade, fail, give way," of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch quelen "to suffer, be ill," from Proto-Germanic *kwaljan, from PIE root *gwele- "to throw, reach," with extended sense "to pierce."
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