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

• Elephants are dying out because they are being hunted for the ivory from their tusks.
  大象正在逐渐消失，因为人们为了象牙而捕杀它们。
• So let me sharpen my tusks while I can.
  所以我得一有时间就磨我的牙齿。
• Before collapsing, the boar gave a fearful groan and killed the hunter with his pointed tusks.
  野猪倒下之前，发出可怕的呻吟，用獠牙把猎人咬死。
• I have a large body with wrinkled skin and tusks made out of ivory.
  我有一个满是褶皱皮肤的庞大身躯和尖尖的象牙。
• My only real enemies are human hunters who value my ivory tusks.
  我唯一真正的敌人是人类捕猎者，他们认为我的象牙很值钱。
• 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。
• Joe Johnston began to develop designs that were resembled upright wild boars complete with snouts and tusks.
  经乔•约翰斯敦进一步设计，他们形似直立的野猪，长着猪鼻和獠牙。
• The curved tusks of a walrus.
  海象的弧形长牙。
• 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。
• Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used in some parts of Africa.
  非洲的一些地区则使用象牙、猴尾和盐。