chick·en
noun/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
Idioms 
enlarge image[countable] a large bird that is often kept for its eggs or meat鸡 - They keep chickens in the back yard.
他们在后院养鸡。 - free-range chickens
散养的鸡 - Chickens were pecking at the ground.
鸡在地上啄食。 - the sound of chickens clucking
鸡咯咯的叫声
Extra ExamplesTopics Birdsa1- 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- battery
- broiler
- corn-fed
- …
- keep
- raise
- kill
- …
- peck
- scratch
- cluck
- …
- farmer
- coop
- run
- …
- They keep chickens in the back yard.
- [uncountable] meat from a chicken
鸡肉 - fried chicken
炸鸡 - roast/grilled chicken
烤鸡；烧鸡 - 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
鸡胸脯肉；鸡翅 - chicken livers/thighs
鸡肝/鸡大腿 - chicken nuggets
鸡肉块 - a chicken sandwich
鸡肉三明治 - chicken soup
鸡汤 - chicken stock
原汁鸡汤
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fresh
- frozen
- organic
- …
- piece
- strip
- eat
- have
- cook
- …
- breast
- drumsticks
- giblets
- …
- (a) breast of chicken
- (a) leg of chicken
- fried chicken
- [countable] a person who is not brave or is afraid to do something
胆小鬼；懦夫 - 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。
- He called me a chicken because I wouldn't swim in the river.
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.
- 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)
- 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)
- (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
play chicken
- 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.
孩子们一直在跑过铁路线玩胆小鬼游戏。
- The children had been playing chicken by running across the railway line.
run around like a headless chicken
- 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