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

• 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。
• 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。
• This proved a decidedly unrewarding tusk.
  结果证明这绝对是件不值得做的工作。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）
• The second felt the elephant's tusk.
  第二个瞎子摸到了大象的象牙。
• The premier of Poland Tusk said in6th, in view of the debt crisis which Greece encountered, now, it is not a best time for Poland to think about to access the Eurozone.
  波兰总理图斯克6日表示，鉴于希腊遇到的债务危机，目前不是波兰考虑加入欧元区的最优选择。
• Polish Prime Minister Tusk recently said that the issue football, Poland can take some risks radical approach, even if it will have to pay.
  波兰总理图斯克日前表示，在足球问题上，波兰可以采取一些冒险、激进的方法，即使这会付出一定的代价。