chicken
['tʃɪk.ɪn] noun
BIRD 禽
ESSENTIAL countable or uncountable
■a type of bird kept on a farm for its eggs or its meat, or the meat of this bird which is cooked and eaten 鸡；鸡肉•A male chicken is called a cock and a female chicken is called a hen.公鸡叫 cock，母鸡称作 hen。 •We're having roast/fried chicken for dinner.晚饭我们吃烤鸡／炸鸡。
['tʃɪk.ɪn] noun
PERSON 人
countable informal
■a coward (= person who is not brave) 胆小鬼，懦夫•Jump, you chicken!跳呀，你这胆小鬼！
['tʃɪk.ɪn] noun
a chicken and egg situation informal
■a situation in which it is impossible to say which of two things existed first and which caused the other one 鸡与蛋孰先难定的情况；因果难定的情形
['tʃɪk.ɪn] noun
play chicken slang
■to play dangerous games in order to discover who is the bravest 比试胆量
['tʃɪk.ɪn] adjective [after verb] child's word
■not brave; cowardly 胆小的，胆怯的•Why won't you jump? Are you chicken?你干吗不跳？害怕了？
['tʃɪk.ɪn] verb
Phrasal Verbs chicken out slang disapproving
■to decide not to do something because you are too frightened （因害怕而）退缩，放弃•I was going to go bungee jumping, but I chickened out.我本来打算去玩高空弹跳的，可是因为害怕放弃了。 |