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chicken noun | verb | adjective
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chick·en / 5tFIkIn ; 5tFIkEn /noun
1. Ca common farm bird that is kept for its meat and eggs鸡;
hen, cock, rooster, chick
2. Uthe meat from this bird eaten as food鸡肉:
roast chicken烤鸡
fried chicken炸鸡
chicken soup鸡汤
3. Cinformalsomeone who is not at all brave胆小鬼,懦夫;SYNcoward
Don't be such a chicken!别那么胆小!
4. Ua game in which children do something dangerous, for example stand on a railway line when a train is coming, and try to be the one who continues doing it for the longest time〔儿童玩的〕比试胆量的游戏
5. which came first, the chicken or the egg? used to say that it is difficult or impossible to decide which of two things happened first, or which action is the cause and which is the effect先有鸡还是先有蛋?〔用于表示先后或因果难以区分〕
6. a chicken and egg situation / problem etc a situation in which it is impossible to decide which of two things happened first, or which action is the cause and which is the effect先有鸡还是先有蛋的状况/问题等
7. sb's chickens have come home to roost used to say that someone's bad or dishonest actions in the past have caused the problems that they have now某人开始遭报应了
don't count your chickens (before they're hatched) at COUNT¹ (8)
SPRING CHICKEN
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chickenverb
 PHRASAL VERBS 
chicken out
informalto decide at the last moment not to do something you said you would do, because you are afraid
〔因害怕而〕临阵退缩:
You're not chickening out, are you?你不会临阵脱逃吧?

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chickenadjective not before nouninformal
1. not brave enough to do something没勇气的,胆小的;SYNcowardly
Dave's too chicken to ask her out.戴夫胆子太小,不敢约她出去。

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