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 street value of elephant tusk is believed to exceed thousands of dollars per kilo and officials have acknowledged the role of organised crime in the poaching crisis.
  象牙的市场价格每公斤超过数千美元。官方承认在偷猎危机中组织了犯罪活动。
• This proved a decidedly unrewarding tusk.
  结果证明这绝对是件不值得做的工作。
• 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。
• Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, said that he would travel immediately to Smolensk, Russia, the site of the crash.
  波兰总理唐纳德塔斯克说他将立即飞往坠毁地点&俄国的斯摩林斯克。
• 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。
• 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 old man grasped the elephant's Tusk and felt it.
  老人抓住大象的鼻子，摸了摸。
• Only filth Torak see is you! Broken Tusk Clan! Slay this dog!
  这里唯一的废柴人渣是你呀！断牙帮！轰杀这狗才！
• 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。