Chicken
['tʃɪkɪn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl.
(noun.) a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops.
(noun.) the flesh of a chicken used for food.
(adj.) easily frightened .
編輯:米考伯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
(n.) A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.
編輯:希娜
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of seeing a brood of chickens, denotes worry from many cares, some of which of which will prove to your profit. Young or half grown chickens, signify fortunate enterprises, but to make them so you will have to exert your physical strength. To see chickens going to roost, enemies are planning to work you evil. To eat them, denotes that selfishness will detract from your otherwise good name. Business and love will remain in precarious states.
哈洛錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- I do not believe in ogres, soothsayers, fortune tellers, or chicken-crut gypsy witchcraft. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Briggs seized it mechanically, gasped it down convulsively, moaned a little, and began to play with the chicken on her plate. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Cultures of chicken chol era virus kept for some time became less active. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I'm a thinkin whether Missis would be a havin a chicken pie o' dese yer. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Yer mind dat ar great chicken pie I made when we guv de dinner to General Knox? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Two easy chairs stood side by side at the head of the table, in which sat Beth and her father, feasting modestly on chicken and a little fruit. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- This yer's my nicest chicken. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Mrs. Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Snakes act on the same principle which makes the hen ruffle her feathers and expand her wings when a dog approaches her chickens. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In one instance it was reported that a few men of Sherman's army passed a house where they discovered some chickens under the dwelling. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The hens were pecking round it, some chickens were balanced on the drinking trough, wagtails flew away in among trucks, from the water. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Chloe stood handling them over abstractedly; it was quite evident that the chickens were not what she was thinking of. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- She apportioned the sweetbreads, jellies, chickens; their quantity and order. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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