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　

GRE

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
  Synonym:ivory

verb

• remove the tusks of animals
  1. tusk an elephant
  Synonym:detusk
• stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
  1. the rhino horned the explorer
  Synonym:horn

双语例句

• The first man touched the elephant's tusk and stated," The elephant is like a carrot. "
  第一个瞎子摸到大象的呀，说，“大象像根尖长的萝卜。”
• The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has claimed victory in the country's general election after exit polls indicated his ruling centre-right Civic Platform party was comfortably ahead of its rivals.
  投票显示，波兰执政的中间偏右派公民纲领党轻松取胜竞争对手，属于该党的总理唐纳德？图斯克宣布赢得该国大选。
• 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。
• Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the crash was the most tragic event of the country's post World War II history.
  唐纳德·塔斯克总理说，此次坠机事故是二战后波兰遭遇的最大悲剧。
• 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。
• It features a bevy of sassy women who contrast with Mr Tusk's mainly grey, male and middle-aged cabinet.
  它的特点是一群时髦活泼的女人与图斯克先生主要的头发灰白的中年男人组成的内给形成对比。
• To keep Europe united is today the biggest challenge, Tusk said last month, referring to the very fragile and difficult consensus reached by European countries after Moscow seized Crimea in March last year.
  去年3月，在莫斯科吞并克里米亚之后，欧洲国家达成了非常脆弱而艰难的一致意见，图斯克上个月在提到这个一致意见时说，如今，要保持欧洲的团结是最大的挑战。
• 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。
• The old man grasped the elephant's Tusk and felt it.
  老人抓住大象的鼻子，摸了摸。
• 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。