【chicken音标】 英[ˈtʃɪkɪn] 美[ˈtʃɪkɪn]
【单词释义】 chicken是什么意思：
n.鸡；鸡肉；胆小鬼；懦夫
adj.胆怯的；幼小的；胆小的
vi.以畏缩的方式去做，失去勇气；在最后一刻因胆怯而退出了
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] chickens [第三人称单数] chickens
[单词现在分词] chickening
[单词过去式] chickened
[单词过去分词] chickened
【关联词/派生词】
chick n. 雏鸟，小鸡；少女，小妞儿
【chicken形近词/近似词】
sicken v. 使大为震惊，使愤怒；使厌恶，使作呕；（使）患病，生病
quicken v.（使）变快；增速；变活跃；鼓舞；使复活
thicken v.（使）变厚；使模糊；变浓；变稠；（使）变复杂
【单词例句】
◇ To prepare for the oncoming cold winter, people there like to eat high-calorie food such as chicken, duck, beef, mutton, and fish, which are usually stewed with the four Chinese medicines: angelica, ligusticum wallichii, Chinese herbaceous peony and rehmannia glutinosa libosch, to enhance the effectiveness of the nourishment.
为了应对即将到来的寒冬，那里的人会吃鸡、鸭、牛、羊、鱼肉这样的高热量食物，而且通常都会加入当归、川芎、白芍、熟地黄这四味中药炖成“四物汤”来提高滋补效果。
---- Start of Winter
◇ When he walked inside the flies were asleep on the wall, the cook in the kitchen was still holding up his hand as if he wanted to grab the boy, and the maid was sitting in front of the black chicken that was supposed to be plucked.
他走进王宫内，看见墙上的苍蝇在沉睡，厨房里的厨师向上举着手，似乎是要打那童工一耳光，一个女仆手里抓着一只黑母鸡准备拔毛。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ Wang Peng earned his living by running a barbecue restaurant, which served delicious bacon, fried chicken breast and mutton roasted with pepper and garlic. But his food and discount attracted fewer and fewer customers. Finally, he was in debt.
王鹏经营一家烧烤餐厅来谋生，他的餐厅供应美味的腊肉、油炸的鸡胸，还有用辣椒和大蒜一起烤制的羊肉。但是，他的食物和折扣吸引的顾客越来越少，最后是他负债累累。
---- Balanced Diet
◇ The money for which I shall sell this milk will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to three hundred,These eggs,allowing for what may prove addle,and what may be destroyed by vermin,will produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens.
我卖了这罐牛奶后，用这笔钱买鸡蛋，这样我有的鸡蛋可以增加到300个。用这300个鸡蛋孵小鸡，这就算有坏的、生虫的，至少也能孵出250只小鸡。
---- The country Maid and Her Milk Can
◇ The first dish was roasted chicken, immediately, the old man took the drumstick for the old lady. “Take this, it’s your favorite.”
第一道菜是烤鸡。立刻地，老夫人的丈夫夹了一个鸡腿给她说道：“尝尝这个，我知道你最喜欢吃鸡腿了。”
---- Life Together
◇ When the morning star arose, it gave her a chicken bone, and said, "Without that chicken bone you cannot open the glass mountain, and your brothers are inside the glass mountain."
当启明星站起来往上飞时，他给了小姑娘一片小木块，说道：“如果你没有这片小木块，就不能打开玻璃山上那座城堡的门。你的哥哥正是住在那座城堡里。”
---- The Seven Ravens