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

• So let me sharpen my tusks while I can.
  所以我得一有时间就磨我的牙齿。
• 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。
• 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。
• That means thousands of elephants will be hunted and killed just for their tusks.
  这意味着成千上万的大象会被猎杀，只是为了它们的大牙。
• 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。
• 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。
• Tusks are fundamentally no different than ordinary teeth.
  象的长牙和普通的牙齿基本上没有什么区别。
• Some hunters kill elephants to sell their tusks.
  一些猎人为了卖掉象牙而捕捉大象。
• 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。