chicken
n. 雞(肉); 膽小鬼
Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat.
Lionel built a coop so that they could raise chickens and have a supply of fresh eggs.
萊昂內爾做了個雞籠,打算養些雞,吃上新鮮雞蛋。
...free-range chickens.
散養的雞
If someone calls you a chicken, they mean that you are afraid to do something.
I'm scared of the dark. I'm a big chicken.
我怕黑,是個十足的膽小鬼。
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.
I don't want to count my chickens before they are hatched.
我不想高興得太早。
If you describe a situation as a chicken and egg situation, you mean that it is impossible to decide which of two things caused the other one.
It's a chicken and egg situation. Does the deficiency lead to the eczema or has the eczema led to certain deficiencies?
這是個雞和蛋的問題。是因為營養缺乏導致溼疹呢,還是溼疹導致了某些營養缺乏?
If someone is running round like a headless chicken or rushing around like a headless chicken, they are panicking when they should be thinking carefully about what needs to be done.
Instead of running round like a headless chicken use your efforts in a more productive way.
別像只沒頭蒼蠅東一頭西一頭的,力氣要用對地方。
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
1. easily frightened
don't count your chickens before they're hatched
見 count
running (或 rushing) about like a headless chicken
(非正式)慌如無頭小雞,驚惶失措
You can make soup by boiling chicken carcasses.
你可以用雞骨架燒湯.
He tore the cooked chicken apart and began to eat it.
他把煮好的雞肉撕開就開始吃起來.
He demolished two big platefuls of chicken.
他吃光了兩大盤雞肉.
You can render the chicken down to make stock for soup.
你可以把這隻雞做成湯料.
The new feed can fatten the chicken up quickly enough for market.
新飼料能使雞長得更快,以適應市場需求.