Tusk
[tʌsk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog.
(verb.) remove the tusks of animals; 'tusk an elephant'.
校對:索尼亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Same as Torsk.
(n.) One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
(n.) A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
(n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.
(v. i.) To bare or gnash the teeth.
編輯:凯利
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Tush, fang, pointed tooth.
约西亚整理
解釋/意思:
n. a long protruding tooth on either side of the mouth of certain animals: a sharp point: the share of a plough.—v.t. to gore with the tusks.—adjs. Tusked Tusk′y.—n. Tusk′er an elephant whose tusks are grown.
校對:朱莉娅
例句/造句/用法:
- These are of irregular cylindrical form, depending on the form of the tusk’s circumference. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The hollow part at the base of the tusk must also be discarded. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- To have a perfectly balanced ball, one that will roll true in every direction, the ball must be so turned out of the tusk that the nerve center runs exactly through the middle of the ball. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- As the tusk grows in length on the living elephant it also expands; but the cells grow larger and less compact as the tusk expands in circumference. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Only that portion of the tusk can be used, the diameter of which is greater than the intended diameter of the ball. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He was a huge fellow, terribly scarred about the face and chest, and with one broken tusk and a missing ear. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- In the ivory storage vaults of one large company, there is held from $150,000 to $300,000 worth of ivory, ranging from the tusk up to the finished product. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The process is as follows: The tusk is sawed into blocks about 2-3/4 inches in size. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Through the center of the tusk runs the great nerve of the tooth. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The rest of the tusk is used for ornaments, piano keys, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- His expression was pleading rather than ferocious, nor did he bare his great tusks or utter his fearful guttural warnings. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Opposite him across the little clearing stood Horta, the boar, with lowered head and foam flecked tusks, ready to charge. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In my house, when I had a house, and now I have no house, there were the tusks of boar I had shot in the lower forest. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Also to Ceylon, specially for elephants' tusks. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
整理:胡安妮塔