tusks

英 [tʌsks]

美 [tʌsks]

n.  (象和某些其他动物的)长牙
tusk的复数

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.

双语例句

• Ivory is the hard white material that forms an elephant's two long teeth, or tusks.
  象牙是一种很难找的白色材料，它们来自象的两个长牙。
• Some hunters kill elephants to sell their tusks.
  一些猎人为了卖掉象牙而捕捉大象。
• Asian elephant having smaller ears and tusks primarily in the male.
  产于亚洲的象，小耳朵，主要是雄性有长牙。
• The curved tusks of a walrus; his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard.
  海象弯曲的长牙；他咧着嘴似乎在微笑，眼里却露着凶光。
• Elephant tusks, monkey tails, and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.
  象牙、猴尾巴、盐等在非洲部分地区也充当过货币。
• The second grasped one of the elephant's tusks and felt it.
  第二个人紧紧抓住并把玩着大象的长牙。
• A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.
  一种坚硬而光滑的乳白色牙质，构成大象和海象的大部分长牙。
• Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.
  长期以来，历史学家们对刻划在墙壁上，骨头上和古代长毛象象牙上的点，线和符号感到迷惑不解。
• So let me sharpen my tusks while I can.
  所以我得一有时间就磨我的牙齿。
• It was about the same size as the woolly mammoth but had straight tusks and less hair.
  它的个儿和毛象差不多，但是，它的象牙是直的，毛也要少些。