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

• 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。
• Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the crash was the most tragic event of the country's post World War II history.
  唐纳德·塔斯克总理说，此次坠机事故是二战后波兰遭遇的最大悲剧。
• Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
  小型北极鲸，其雄性有扭曲的长尖牙。
• To keep Europe united is today the biggest challenge, Tusk said last month, referring to the very fragile and difficult consensus reached by European countries after Moscow seized Crimea in March last year.
  去年3月，在莫斯科吞并克里米亚之后，欧洲国家达成了非常脆弱而艰难的一致意见，图斯克上个月在提到这个一致意见时说，如今，要保持欧洲的团结是最大的挑战。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This proved a decidedly unrewarding tusk.
  结果证明这绝对是件不值得做的工作。
• Our common intention is also very, very clear, said Mr Tusk at a post-summit press conference. We have to maintain our sanctions until the Minsk agreement is fully implemented.
  我们的共同意图是非常明确的，图斯克在峰会后的一场记者招待会上说，我们必须维持制裁，直到俄罗斯完全履行明斯克协议为止。
• 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！