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

• 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。
• The elephants are poached for their tusks.
  为获取象牙而偷猎大象。
• 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。
• African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks.
  在脸部和突出的长牙上有疣样隆起的非洲野猪。
• 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。
• The curved tusks of a walrus; his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard.
  海象弯曲的长牙；他咧着嘴似乎在微笑，眼里却露着凶光。
• 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。
• The second grasped one of the elephant's tusks and felt it.
  第二个人紧紧抓住并把玩着大象的长牙。
• 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。
• Without hesitation, the elephant king offered what was left of his tusks.
  象王没有丝毫犹豫就献出了自己余下的象牙。