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

• 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）
• This proved a decidedly unrewarding tusk.
  结果证明这绝对是件不值得做的工作。
• 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。
• European Council President Donald Tusk said Sunday the European Union and the G7 leaders remain firm in their support of Ukraine in its fight against pro-Russian separatists.
  欧洲委员会主席图斯克说，欧盟和工业化七国领导人仍然坚决支持乌克兰打击东部的亲俄罗斯分离主义分子。
• Obama will be meeting with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
  奥巴马总统将会晤波兰总统科莫罗斯基以及波兰总理图斯克。
• 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。
• 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。
• Polish Prime Minister Tusk recently said that the issue football, Poland can take some risks radical approach, even if it will have to pay.
  波兰总理图斯克日前表示，在足球问题上，波兰可以采取一些冒险、激进的方法，即使这会付出一定的代价。
• 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。
• Plunge or bury in flesh, as of a knife, sword, or tusk.
  陷入或者埋葬在肉中，关于刀，剑或者尖牙。