Hen

(noun.) female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster.

(noun.) adult female bird.

(noun.) adult female chicken.

(noun.) flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing.

富兰克林校对

• In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But what is the meaning of these head-keepers and hen-pheasants? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Mr. Laurence watches over us like a motherly old hen, as Jo says, and Laurie is very kind and neighborly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Or could it be that there was a prearranged significance to such phrases as 'fly-paper' and 'hen-pheasant'? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Snakes act on the same principle which makes the hen ruffle her feathers and expand her wings when a dog approaches her chickens. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The _lightning rod_ has brought protection to homes and lives, and the _incubator_ has become the hen’s wet nurse. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A hen that chanced to be inoculated with the weakened virus developed the diseas e, but, after a time, recovered (much as patients after the old-time small pox inoculations). 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• So it is with young pheasants reared in England under a hen. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He took a small glass bottle about the size of a hen’s egg, the neck of which was two palms long, and as narrow as a straw. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• On this muslin the eggs are placed, in the same position as if laid in a hen’s nest, and it allows the air to pass through to the eggs for ventilation. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I tried it backwards, but the combination 'life pheasant's hen' was not encouraging. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Use by taking a small piece--about twice the size of a hen’s egg. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• By-and-by, after an anxious search, his father found him sitting in a nest he had made in the barn, filled with goose-eggs and hens' eggs he had collected, trying to hatch them out. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Chicks hatched by incubators, if rightly cared for, do better than with hens, and are stronger and more vigorous. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Hens that had not had chicken cholera could be rendered immune by a series of attenuated inoculations gradually increasing in strength. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The hens were pecking round it, some chickens were balanced on the drinking trough, wagtails flew away in among trucks, from the water. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She knew the sequestered spots where the hens laid their eggs. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He was looking for sage hens. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• HIS breakfast hour was half-past six--and HE went to bed with the cocks and hens! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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