tusk
英 [tʌsk]
美 [tʌsk]
n. (象和某些其他动物的)长牙
复数：tusks 过去式：tusked 第三人称单数：tusks 现在分词：tusking 过去分词：tusked
BNC.21007 / COCA.16945
牛津词典
noun
- （象和某些其他动物的）长牙
either of the long curved teeth that stick out of the mouth of elephants and some other animals
柯林斯词典
- (象、野猪、海象等的) 长牙
Thetusksof an elephant, wild boar, or walrus are its two very long, curved, pointed teeth.
英英释义
noun
- a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging
- a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
verb
- remove the tusks of animals
- tusk an elephant
- stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
- the rhino horned the explorer
双语例句
- An article carved or engraved from whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers.
通常由美国捕鲸人完成的，用鲸须、鲸牙和海象胡须等雕刻出来的东西。 - Elephants wear the tusk down faster than they can grow it.
象牙磨损的速度快于生长的速度。 - The wild boar had its tusk sunk deeply into a tree and howled desperately.
野猪的獠牙陷在了树里，绝望地嗥叫着。 - It has yet to be confirmed whether the embassy was deliberately targeted, Sikorski said, adding that the incident has been reported to Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
是否使馆为蓄意攻击的目标仍有待证实，西科尔斯基补充说，这一事件已报告给波兰波兰总统卡钦斯基和总理图斯克。 - Other mammals are believed to contribute to the myth of the unicorn, including the narwhal, a whale with a long, spiraling tusk.
据说包括具有盘旋长牙的独角鲸等其它的哺乳动物和独角兽之说也有关。 - The challenge to Mr Tusk comes from PiS, which blends patriotic conservatism and prickliness to foreigners with socially minded Catholicism.
图斯克先生的挑战来自法律与公正党，他们将爱国保守主义和对外国人的敏感以及有社会思想的天主教混杂在一起。 - The old man grasped the elephant's Tusk and felt it.
老人抓住大象的鼻子，摸了摸。 - To pierceor stab with a horn or tusk.
用角抵；用长牙戳。 - The second felt the elephant's tusk.
第二个瞎子摸到了大象的象牙。 - Our common intention is also very, very clear, said Mr Tusk at a post-summit press conference. We have to maintain our sanctions until the Minsk agreement is fully implemented.
我们的共同意图是非常明确的，图斯克在峰会后的一场记者招待会上说，我们必须维持制裁，直到俄罗斯完全履行明斯克协议为止。