quill
quill 英 [kwɪl] 美 [kwɪl]
n. 大翎毛；羽茎；（豪猪、刺猬的）刚毛 vt. 刺穿
名词复数:quills
- A quill is a feather, or the narrow tube of a feather's shaft — long ago used as a writing instrument. John Hancock didn't use a ballpoint to sign the Declaration of Independence, silly. He used a quill!
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- n. 大翎毛；羽茎；（豪猪、刺猬的）刚毛
- vt. 刺穿
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1. This language is officially called Structured Query Language (or SQL, pronounced sea-quill).
这个语言称作结构化查询语言（或 SQL，发音是 sea-quill）。
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2. Written information was no longer the domain of monks with quill pens and hand-written books were no longer confined to zealots in churches.
书面信息不再是使用鹅毛笔和手抄书的僧侣们的统治领地，也不再仅限于教会的狂热信徒。
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3. Simple, quill-like filaments on the head (upper right on fossil), back, and tail of Beipiaosaurus inexpectus surprised paleontologist Xu Xing when he first saw this fossil in 1997.
1997年，当古生物学家徐星第一次看到这块化石时，意外北票龙头部、背上和尾部简易的刚毛状细丝让他觉得惊讶不已。
- quill (n.) c. 1400, "piece of reed or hollow stem of a feather," probably related to Middle High German kil "quill," from Low German quiele, of unknown origin. Meaning "pen made from a (goose) quill" is from 1550s; that of "porcupine spine" is from c. 1600.
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