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 second felt the elephant's tusk.
  第二个瞎子摸到了大象的象牙。
• A huge tusk decorated the wall of his study.
  他书房的墙上装饰着一支巨大的象牙。
• Figurine of walrus tusk ( excl. original sculptures and statuary)
  海象长牙制小雕像（不包括雕塑和雕像原件）
• 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 succeed in that tusk you need to be a superman.
  如要完成那项任务，你需要有超人的力量。
• 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。”
• This proved a decidedly unrewarding tusk.
  结果证明这绝对是件不值得做的工作。
• The old man grasped the elephant's Tusk and felt it.
  老人抓住大象的鼻子，摸了摸。
• 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。
• 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。