用英语介绍小鸡

The chicken is a domesticated fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago.Until this discovery, conventional wisdom held that the chicken was domesticated in India. Some genetic research has suggested that the bird likely descended from both Red and the Grey Junglefowl (G. sonneratii). Although hybrids of both wild types usually tend toward sterility, recent genetic work has revealed that the genotype for yellow skin present in the domestic fowl is not present in what is otherwise its closest kin, the Red Junglefowl. It is deemed most likely, then, that the yellow skin trait in domestic birds originated in the Grey Junglefowl. The chicken is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals. With a population of more than 24 billion in 2003,there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs.

一楼回答的那几种用法都是有的并常用的。在此就不做重复解释了，尽可放心使用 。这里只是再补充一个rooster（美语常用），意思和cock, cockerel一致，指公鸡。未满一岁的小公鸡多叫cockerel（英式英语常用）。另外，chicken不仅仅指鸡肉，也可做鸡的统称。

小鸡的英语：chick

读音：英 [tʃɪk] 美 [tʃɪk]

n. 小鸡；少妇

adj. 胆小的；懦弱的

词汇搭配：

1、chick embryo 鸡胚

2、baby chick 鸡苗

3、dab chick 刚孵出的雏鸡

4、chick livability 仔鸡成活率

相关例句：

1、I breed some chicks for pets.

我养了一些小鸡当宠物。

2、The chick will soon feather out.

这只小鸡很快就要长羽毛了。

3、The chick will soon feather out.

这只小鸡很快就要长羽毛了。

4、A weasel ran off with a chick in its mouth.

黄鼠狼叼走一只小鸡。

相近词义单词

Chicken  英 ['tʃɪkɪn] 美 ['tʃɪkɪn]

n. 鸡；鸡肉；胆小者

adj. 懦弱的；胆小的

vi. 失去勇气

相关例句：

1、He has a chicken farm.

他有一个养鸡场。

2、He is mending the wire mesh in front of the chicken coop.

他正在鸡笼前面修理铁丝网。

Chickens are the most common human rearing poultry. Chicken source for the original wild chickens, and their domestication history of at least about 4000, but it was not until 1800 before and after the chicken and the egg became a mass-produced merchandise.