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chicken

noun
/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
Idioms
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  1. [countable] a large bird that is often kept for its eggs or meat
    • They keep chickens in the back yard.他们在后院养鸡。
    • free-range chickens自由放养的鸡
    • Chickens were pecking at the ground.小鸡在啄食地面。
    • the sound of chickens clucking鸡咯咯叫的声音
    compare cock, hen see also spring chicken
    Extra Examples
    • A few chickens were scratching around the yard.几只鸡在院子里到处刨。
    • Are we just going to sit here like trussed up chickens?难道我们只能像被缚的鸡一样呆坐在这里吗?
    • Battery chickens have miserable lives.在鸡笼里饲养的鸡生存环境很差。
    • Free-range chickens have happy lives.放养的鸡活得快活。
    • a crate of live chickens一箱活鸡
    Topics Birdsa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • battery
    • broiler
    • corn-fed
    verb + chicken
    • keep
    • raise
    • kill
    chicken + verb
    • peck
    • scratch
    • cluck
    chicken + noun
    • farmer
    • coop
    • run
    See full entry
  2. [uncountable] meat from a chicken鸡肉
    • fried chicken炸鸡
    • roast/grilled chicken烤鸡
    • succulent pieces of chicken鲜嫩美味的鸡肉块
    • chicken and chips炸鸡块配炸薯条
    • chicken breasts/wings鸡胸肉/鸡翅
    • chicken livers/thighs鸡肝/鸡腿
    • chicken nuggets鸡肉块
    • a chicken sandwich鸡肉三明治
    • chicken soup鸡汤
    • chicken stock原汁鸡汤
    see also coronation chickenTopics Fooda1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • fresh
    • frozen
    • organic
    … of chicken
    • piece
    • strip
    verb + chicken
    • eat
    • have
    • cook
    chicken + noun
    • breast
    • drumsticks
    • giblets
    phrases
    • (a) breast of chicken
    • (a) leg of chicken
    See full entry
  3. [countable] a person who is not brave or is afraid to do something胆怯;懦弱;怯懦
    • He called me a chicken because I wouldn't swim in the river.他叫我胆小鬼,因为我不愿意到河里游泳。
  4. Word OriginOld English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock.
Idioms
a chicken-and-egg situation, problem, etc.
  1. a situation in which it is difficult to tell which one of two things was the cause of the other鸡与蛋孰先难定的情况;因果难定的问题
something comes home to roost
(also the chickens come home to roost)
  1. used to say that if somebody says or does something bad or wrong, it will affect them badly in the future自食恶果;报应到自己身上
don’t count your chickens (before they are hatched)
  1. (saying) you should not be too confident that something will be successful, because something may still go wrong不要蛋未孵化先数小鸡;别过早打如意算盘Topics Successc2
play chicken
  1. to play a game in which people do something dangerous for as long as they can to show how brave they are. The person who stops first has lost the game.比试胆量
    • The children had been playing chicken by running across the railway line.孩子们跑过铁路线是在玩小鸡游戏。
    Topics Games and toysc2
run around like a headless chicken
  1. to be very busy and active trying to do something, but not very organized, with the result that you do not succeed茫无头绪地瞎忙一通Topics Difficulty and failurec2

chicken

verb
/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they chicken
/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
he / she / it chickens
/ˈtʃɪkɪnz/
/ˈtʃɪkɪnz/
past simple chickened
/ˈtʃɪkɪnd/
/ˈtʃɪkɪnd/
past participle chickened
/ˈtʃɪkɪnd/
/ˈtʃɪkɪnd/
-ing form chickening
/ˈtʃɪkɪnɪŋ/
/ˈtʃɪkɪnɪŋ/
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chicken

adjective
/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
[not before noun] (informal)
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  1. not brave; afraid to do something 胆怯;懦弱;怯懦synonym cowardlyTopics Personal qualitiesc2
    Word OriginOld English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock.

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