Chicken

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

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

(noun.) the flesh of a chicken used for food.

(adj.) easily frightened .

编辑:米考伯

• I do not believe in ogres, soothsayers, fortune tellers, or chicken-crut gypsy witchcraft. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Briggs seized it mechanically, gasped it down convulsively, moaned a little, and began to play with the chicken on her plate. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Cultures of chicken chol era virus kept for some time became less active. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I'm a thinkin whether Missis would be a havin a chicken pie o' dese yer. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Yer mind dat ar great chicken pie I made when we guv de dinner to General Knox? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Two easy chairs stood side by side at the head of the table, in which sat Beth and her father, feasting modestly on chicken and a little fruit. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• This yer's my nicest chicken. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Mrs. Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Snakes act on the same principle which makes the hen ruffle her feathers and expand her wings when a dog approaches her chickens. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In one instance it was reported that a few men of Sherman's army passed a house where they discovered some chickens under the dwelling. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The hens were pecking round it, some chickens were balanced on the drinking trough, wagtails flew away in among trucks, from the water. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Chloe stood handling them over abstractedly; it was quite evident that the chickens were not what she was thinking of. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She apportioned the sweetbreads, jellies, chickens; their quantity and order. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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