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henhouse

/hen-hous/US // ˈhɛnˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈhɛnˌhaʊs) //

鸡舍,母鸡舍,鸡笼,埘埘

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural hen·hous·es [hen-hou-ziz]. /ˈhɛnˌhaʊ zɪz/.

    • : a shelter for poultry.

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Examples

  • “What we have here is sort of the fox watching the henhouse,” said Jenny Vollen-Katz, executive director of the John Howard Association, an independent citizen group that has monitored Illinois prisons for more than a century.

  • We had a vast vegetable garden, fruit trees, a henhouse, and my father would hunt most of our meat: venison, elk, bear.

  • Perhaps the most significant structural flaw in the current system, however, is that the fox is guarding the henhouse.

  • In the meantime, Romney is carrying the chickens out the backdoor of the henhouse, one by one.

  • I don't like having to go inside that henhouse, even though it is barely inside the door.

  • Sam'l leant against the henhouse as if all his desire to depart had gone.

  • However, when the nights began to grow chilly Henrietta was glad enough to creep into the henhouse with her companions.

  • The Rooster was glad it was not lighter in the henhouse, for he felt himself flushing hotly.

  • She had written Emily of her visit to Solomon Cobb's "henhouse" and of the loan on mortgage which had resulted therefrom.