Fowl
[faʊl]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Bird, winged animal.[2]. Poultry, barn-door fowl, domestic fowl.
整理:韦尔登
解釋/意思:
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.
錄入:奥维尔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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.
錄入:朱莉
例句/造句/用法:
- Of their smaller fowl I could take up twenty or thirty at the end of my knife. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Great pleasure--not presume to dictate, but broiled fowl and mushrooms- -capital thing! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Roast fowl for your dinner, I suppose. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- No rustling of the leaves--no bird's note in the wood--no cry of water-fowl from the pools of the hidden lake. 威爾基·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. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Nearly,' replied Sawyer, helping himself to half a fowl as he spoke. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The other articles on the table are one raw and one roast fowl, bought Jan. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Have some cayenne-pepper with your fowl. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- 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. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Canvasback ducks are considered the finest of the water-fowls for the table. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- There were no children, no servants, no fowls. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She's such a manager of fowls, you have no idea. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- 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.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Now, Joe, the fowls. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A middling farmer will there sometimes have four hundred fowls in his yard. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of roast stuffed fowls. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- One can't eat fowls of a bad character at a high price. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- These implements no doubt stood about in the interior of the house, from the walls of which hung his fowling-nets. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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