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quailing

农业科学 | 医药科学 | 生物学

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n.
- flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
- small gallinaceous game birds
v. draw back, as with fear or pain
同义词： flinch squinch funk cringe shrink wince recoil

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1.
N-COUNT A quail is a type of bird that lives on the ground and is often shot and eaten. 鹌鹑
2.
V-I If someone or something makes you quail, they make you feel very afraid, often so that you hesitate. 畏缩 [文学性]

例：

The very words make many of us quail.

这几个字眼让我们中的很多人都感到畏缩。

例：

He told Naomi she was becoming just like Maya. Naomi quailed at the thought.

他告诉内奥米说，她正变得像玛雅一样。内奥米让该念头吓住了。

But there are also homecomings as terrible in their way as exile: parents who finally reclaim children from orphanages, but live out their relationships in stigma and silence, for ever hoarding food and quailing before policemen.

ECONOMIST: The Soviet Union
They played in the grip of a peculiarly English affliction: having swept into the tournament with a presumption of greatness a greatness inherited from a misty past that they were commissioned to recover they proved anxious and hesitant, quailing in the face of history, and losing on penalties.

ECONOMIST: The intertwined fates of a people and their football team

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