chicken

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈtʃɪk.ɪn]
• 美式音标 [ˈtʃɪk.ɪn]
• 英式发音
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基本解释

• n.雞；雞肉；膽小者
• adj.懦弱的；膽小的
• vi.失去勇氣

词源解说

• 直接源自中古英語的chiken；最初源自古英語的cycen，意爲小公雞。

同根派生

• adj性質的同根詞

  chick：膽小的；懦弱的。

• n性質的同根詞

  chick：小雞；小鳥；少婦。

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用法辨析

n. (名詞)

• chicken可以指作爲家禽的雞,也可指作爲食品的雞肉。作“小雞”解時是個躰名詞,可數; 作“雞肉”解時則是物質名詞,不可數。

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英汉例句

用作名詞 (n.)

• The hawk snatched the chicken and flew away.
  鷹抓起一衹小雞就飛走了。

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词组短语

用作名詞 (n.)

動詞+～

• boil chicken 煮雞
• bone a chicken 給雞去骨
• cook chicken 烹雞,煮雞
• count one 's chickens 數雞
• dress a chicken 把雞開膛洗淨

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (BIRD) a type of bird kept on a farm for its eggs or its meat, or the meat of this bird that is cooked and eaten
• (PERSON) a person who is not brave
• not brave

柯林斯英英字典

• Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat.
• Chicken is the flesh of this bird eaten as food.
• If someone calls you a chicken, they mean that you are afraid to do something.
• Chicken is also an adjective.
• If you say that someone is counting their chickens, you mean that they are assuming that they will be successful or get something, when this is not certain.
• chickens come home to roost&rarrsee roost

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