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

• 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。
• Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber.
  两种大型北方哺乳动物之一，有尖牙，厚厚的鲸脂外面有粗糙的硬皮。
• 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。
• It was about the same size as the woolly mammoth but had straight tusks and less hair.
  它的个儿和毛象差不多，但是，它的象牙是直的，毛也要少些。
• Throughout the Nomenclature, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as "ivory".
  本税则所称“兽牙”，是指象、河马、海象、一角鲸和野猪的长牙、犀角及其他动物的牙齿。
• 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。
• 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。
• The curved tusks of a walrus.
  海象的弧形长牙。
• 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。
• 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。