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

• 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。
• 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。
• African elephant having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.
  耳朵大而飘、有象牙的非洲大象。
• 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。
• 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。
• Elephants are dying out because they are being hunted for the ivory from their tusks.
  大象正在逐渐消失，因为人们为了象牙而捕杀它们。
• 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。
• Which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.
  它们可能雕刻在墙壁上、骨头上、古代长毛象的象牙上。
• They deeply respected the animals they hunted and wore the teeth and tusks of wild boar as trophies.
  他们极为尊敬猎物，并配戴野猪牙作为战利品。
• 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。