英语词汇“chicken”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

chicken

/ˈtʃɪkɪn

noun

1A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one: rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens...

Most of us think we're familiar with the sounds of the domestic chicken, but not all fowl calls are created equal.
As birds go, the domestic chicken is hardly built for high-performance flight.
This brief summary demonstrates the level of understanding that has been gained in studying the scutate scales of the chicken.

1.1 [mass noun] Meat from a chicken: roast chicken...

The meats consisted of soft shelled crab covered in spices, tender roast beef and chicken.
The main types of meat are pork, chicken, and mutton.
This tells us that she won't eat red meat, chicken, pork, fish or seafood.

2 [mass noun] informal A game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser: he was killed by a car after he lay in the road playing chicken...

Bondholders are playing a dangerous game of chicken because they feel they have little to lose.
I think it's sort of a game of chicken until then.
It's like we're playing a game of chicken in reverse.

2.1 [count noun] A coward.You're right - I am a chicken, scared of everything and anything....

Candy was right, Jane was being a coward and chicken.

adjective [predicative] informal

Cowardly: I was too chicken to go to court

verb [no object] (chicken out) informal

Withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve: the referee chickened out of giving a penalty...

But every time I almost get up the nerve to go and speak to her, I chicken out.
Maybe you'll intend to come clean but chicken out.
She said, ‘We need to raise a better generation that won't chicken out.’

Phrases

don't count your chickens before they're hatched

like a headless chicken

Origin

Old English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock¹.

A word that probably has the same ancient root as cock. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched is recorded from the 16th century, and refers to one of Aesop's fables of 2,000 years earlier, in which a girl carrying a pail of milk to market dreams about buying chickens with the profit from the milk and becoming rich through selling eggs. In her daydream she sees herself as being so wealthy that she would simply toss her head at all her would-be lovers, at which point she tosses her head and spills the milk. Chickens coming home to roost is a form of the proverb, dating from the 14th century, curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

单词	chicken
释义	chicken /ˈtʃɪkɪn / noun 1A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one: rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens... Most of us think we're familiar with the sounds of the domestic chicken, but not all fowl calls are created equal. As birds go, the domestic chicken is hardly built for high-performance flight. This brief summary demonstrates the level of understanding that has been gained in studying the scutate scales of the chicken. 1.1 [mass noun] Meat from a chicken: roast chicken... The meats consisted of soft shelled crab covered in spices, tender roast beef and chicken. The main types of meat are pork, chicken, and mutton. This tells us that she won't eat red meat, chicken, pork, fish or seafood. 2 [mass noun] informal A game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser: he was killed by a car after he lay in the road playing chicken... Bondholders are playing a dangerous game of chicken because they feel they have little to lose. I think it's sort of a game of chicken until then. It's like we're playing a game of chicken in reverse. 2.1 [count noun] A coward.You're right - I am a chicken, scared of everything and anything.... Candy was right, Jane was being a coward and chicken. adjective [predicative] informal Cowardly: I was too chicken to go to court verb [no object] (chicken out) informal Withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve: the referee chickened out of* giving a penalty... But every time I almost get up the nerve to go and speak to her, I chicken out. Maybe you'll intend to come clean but chicken out. She said, ‘We need to raise a better generation that won't chicken out.’ Phrases don't count your chickens before they're hatched like a headless chicken Origin Old English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken* and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock¹. A word that probably has the same ancient root as cock. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched is recorded from the 16th century, and refers to one of Aesop's fables of 2,000 years earlier, in which a girl carrying a pail of milk to market dreams about buying chickens with the profit from the milk and becoming rich through selling eggs. In her daydream she sees herself as being so wealthy that she would simply toss her head at all her would-be lovers, at which point she tosses her head and spills the milk. Chickens coming home to roost is a form of the proverb, dating from the 14th century, curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
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