chicken

英 ['tʃɪkɪn] 美['tʃɪkɪn]

n. 鸡肉；小鸡；胆小鬼，懦夫
adj. 鸡肉的；胆怯的；幼小的
vi. 鸡肉的；胆怯的；幼小的

近义词 yellow meat craven

CET6 考研 TEM4 CET4 核心词汇中频词

英英释义

1. the flesh of a chicken used for food

2. a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

3. a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

4. a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

词组搭配

don't count your chickens before they're hatched

see count

见 count

考试真题

In spring, chickens start laying again, bringing a welcome source of protein at winter's end.

Some tables will arrive on a Sunday, order a whole chicken and a shoulder of lamb or a baby pig, and just stay for hours enjoying everything we bring out for them.

Add a lunch of chicken, rice and broccoli (西兰花), and you are already over the recommended 50 grams.

It's in foods many of us expect, such as beef, chicken and other types of meat and dairy.

The company boasts that its dried crickets contain more protein than beef, chicken, and pork, as well as minerals like iron and calcium.

A taste for meat is actually behind the change: an important part of its corn is used to feed chickens, pigs, and cattle.

And every week he cleaned old man Mccolgin's chicken house in exchange for manure

He said the chickens had never missed a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped laying eggs.

However,he would have to buy chicken feed with the money he made from the eggs.

I had roast chicken yesterday when I ate out with Shelly.

I think I'll have the roast chicken.

I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would buy the eggs from him.

If we thought Dad's pile of chicken manure was bad, this was 10 times worse.

In 1928, Herbert Hoover imagined an America with "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage".

Then I asked him if he had cut down the amount of feed he had given the chickens.

When my son gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to work, I bought twenty chickens and asked him to take care of them.

You can fool everyone else, but you cannot "fool the chickens," because in the end, you will find out, as the saying goes, "What goes around comes around."

"The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation," said USFWS director Daniel Ashe.

Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowners or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.

USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67, 000 birds over the next 10 years.

实用场景例句

They keep chickens in the back yard.: 他们在后院养鸡。

free-range chickens: 自由放养的鸡

fried/roast chicken: 炸 / 烧鸡

chicken stock/soup: 原汁鸡汤；鸡汤

chicken breasts/livers/thighs: 鸡胸脯肉 / 肝 / 大腿

chicken and chips: 炸鸡块配炸薯条

...free-range chickens.: 散养的鸡

I'm scared of the dark. I'm a big chicken.: 我怕黑，是个十足的胆小鬼。

I don't want to count my chickens before they are hatched.: 我不想高兴得太早。

It's a chicken and egg situation. Does the deficiency lead to the eczema or has the eczema led to certain deficiencies?: 这是个鸡和蛋的问题。是因为营养缺乏导致湿疹呢，还是湿疹导致了某些营养缺乏？

Instead of running round like a headless chicken use your efforts in a more productive way.: 别像只没头苍蝇东一头西一头的，力气要用对地方。

Lionel built a coop so that they could raise chickens and have a supply of fresh eggs.: 莱昂内尔做了个鸡笼，打算养些鸡，吃上新鲜鸡蛋。

Uh , but what if I just tookpart of the brownie?: 那么如果我只要一半杏仁饼呢 ?

You can make soup by boiling chicken carcasses.: 你可以用鸡骨架烧汤.

He tore the cooked chicken apart and began to eat it.: 他把煮好的鸡肉撕开就开始吃起来.

He demolished two big platefuls of chicken.: 他吃光了两大盘鸡肉.

You can render the chicken down to make stock for soup.: 你可以把这只鸡做成汤料.

The new feed can fatten the chicken up quickly enough for market.: 新饲料能使鸡长得更快,以适应市场需求.

They had chicken breasts for lunch.: 他们午餐吃鸡胸肉.

I will help myself to the chicken.: 我会自己动手吃鸡的.

He finished off two bowls of chicken noodles soup in no time.: 他很快吃完了两碗鸡汤面.

The wings of the chicken have become vestigial; it can no longer fly.: 鸡的翅膀逐渐退化, 不会在空中飞行了.

Put the chicken pieces in a casserole.: 把鸡块放到砂锅里.

My salary is chicken feed compared with hers.: 与她相比,我的工资少得可怜.

We two have not strength enough in our hands to tie a chicken fast. We can only eat.: 我们两个手无缚鸡之力, 只好吃饭.

中文词源

chicken 鸡

来自PIE*keuk, 鸡叫声，拟声词，词源同cock.

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发音联想：吃啃（吃鸡要一边吃一边啃）

双语例句

1. He decided on roast chicken and vegetables, with apple pie to follow.: 他决定点烤鸡配蔬菜，然后再要一份苹果派。

2. I'm scared of the dark. I'm a big chicken.: 我怕黑，是个十足的胆小鬼。

3. They tend to buy cheap processed foods like canned chicken and macaroni.: 他们往往会买便宜的加工食品，像鸡肉罐头和通心粉之类的。

4. Prepare the chicken stock using the carcases, the diced vegetables and herbs.: 做鸡汤的用料有鸡肉、切成块的蔬菜和香料。

5. She offered Molly tidbits: a chicken drumstick, some cheese.: 她给了莫莉一些吃的：一根鸡腿下段和一些奶酪。

英文词源

chicken: chicken: [OE] Chicken is a widespread Germanic word (Dutch has kuiken, for instance, and Danish kylling), whose ancestor has been reconstructed as *kiukīnam. This was formed, with a diminutive suffix, on a base *keuk-, which some have claimed is a variant of a base which lies behind cock; if that is so, a chicken would amount etymologically to a ‘little cock’ (and historically the term has been applied to young fowl, although nowadays it tends to be the general word, regardless of age). Chick is a 14thcentury abbreviation.

The modern adjectival sense ‘scared’ is a 20th-century revival of a 17thand 18th-century noun sense ‘coward’, based no doubt on chicken-hearted.
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chicken (n.): Old English cicen (plural cicenu) "young fowl," which by early Middle English had came to mean "young chicken," then later any chicken, from Proto-Germanic *kiukinam (cognates: Middle Dutch kiekijen, Dutch kieken, Old Norse kjuklingr, Swedish kyckling, German Küken "chicken"), from root *keuk- (echoic of the bird's sound and possibly also the root of cock (n.1)) + diminutive suffixes.

Applied to the young of other bird species from early 13c. Adjective sense of "cowardly" is at least as old as 14c. (compare hen-herte "a chicken-hearted person," mid-15c.). As the name of a game of danger to test courage, it is first recorded 1953. Chicken feed "paltry sum of money" is by 1897, American English slang; literal use (it is made from the from lowest quality of grain) by 1834. Chicken lobster "young lobster," is from c. 1960s, American English, apparently from chicken in its sense of "young." Generic words for "chicken" in Indo-European tend to be extended uses of "hen" words, as hens are more numerous among domestic fowl, but occasionally they are from words for the young, as in English and in Latin pullus.
chicken (v.): "to back down or fail through cowardice," 1943, U.S. slang, from chicken (n.), almost always with out (adv.).

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复数: chickens;

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词组搭配

don't count your chickens before they're hatched

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