Fowl
[faʊl]
解释:
(n.) Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
(n.) Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
(v. i.) To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
整理:卢修斯
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Bird, winged animal.[2]. Poultry, barn-door fowl, domestic fowl.
整理:韦尔登
解释:
n. a bird: a bird of the barn-door or poultry kind a cock or hen: the flesh of fowl:—pl. Fowls Fowl.—v.i. to kill fowls by shooting or snaring.—ns. Fowl′er a sportsman who takes wild-fowl; Fowl′ing; Fowl′ing-net a net for catching birds; Fowl′ing-piece a light gun for small-shot used in fowling.
录入:奥维尔
娱乐性解释:
To dream of seeing fowls, denotes temporary worry or illness. For a woman to dream of fowls, indicates a short illness or disagreement with her friends. See Chickens.
录入:朱莉
例句:
- Of their smaller fowl I could take up twenty or thirty at the end of my knife. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Great pleasure--not presume to dictate, but broiled fowl and mushrooms- -capital thing! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Roast fowl for your dinner, I suppose. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- No rustling of the leaves--no bird's note in the wood--no cry of water-fowl from the pools of the hidden lake. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The poor folks here might have a fowl in their pot, as the good French king used to wish for all his people. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- When he got back to the Slaughters', the roast fowl was of course cold, in which condition he ate it for supper. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Nearly,' replied Sawyer, helping himself to half a fowl as he spoke. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The other articles on the table are one raw and one roast fowl, bought Jan. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Have some cayenne-pepper with your fowl. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- But I'm always ready to back my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the bird I ate is country bred. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Canvasback ducks are considered the finest of the water-fowls for the table. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- We know there the quantity of milk our neighbour takes and espy the joint or the fowls which are going in for his dinner. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- There were no children, no servants, no fowls. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- She's such a manager of fowls, you have no idea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- What I have said as to the temporary preservation of fish by fishmongers applies equally to the preservation of meat and fowls by butchers and poulterers. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Now, Joe, the fowls. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- A middling farmer will there sometimes have four hundred fowls in his yard. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of roast stuffed fowls. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- One can't eat fowls of a bad character at a high price. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- These implements no doubt stood about in the interior of the house, from the walls of which hung his fowling-nets. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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