tongues

英 [tʌŋz]

美 [tʌŋz]

n.  舌; 舌头; 口条; 语言
tongue的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 舌;舌头
  Yourtongueis the soft movable part inside your mouth which you use for tasting, eating, and speaking.
  1. I walked over to the mirror and stuck my tongue out...
     我走到镜子前面伸出舌头。
  2. She ran her tongue around her lips.
     她用舌头舔了舔嘴唇。
• N-COUNT 说话能力;说话方式
  You can usetongueto refer to the kind of things that a person says.
  1. …her sharp wit and quick tongue…
     她敏捷的才思和伶俐的口齿
  2. She had a nasty tongue, but I liked her.
     她言辞尖刻，但我喜欢她。
• See also:The French feel passionately about their native tongue.mother tongue
• (烹制后通常作为冷盘的)牛舌，羊舌
  Tongueis the cooked tongue of an ox or sheep. It is usually eaten cold.
• 鞋舌
  Thetongueof a shoe or boot is the piece of leather which is underneath the laces.
• N-COUNT 舌状物;火舌;伸入水中的狭长陆地
  Atongue ofsomething such as fire or land is a long thin piece of it.
  1. A yellow tongue of flame shot upwards.
     一条黄色的火舌直冲上天。
  2. …a silver, frozen tongue of water.
     一条冻结了的银色水舌
• PHRASE 无诚意的;虚情假意的
  Atongue-in-cheekremark or attitude is not serious, although it may seem to be.
  1. ...a lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek approach...
     漫不经心、虚情假意的态度
  2. This is all slightly tongue-in-cheek, I'd like to make that clear…
     这一切都有些缺少诚意，我想清楚地指出这点。
  3. Were they written tongue-in-cheek, or with an underlying conviction?
     它们只是随便写出来的呢，还是有什么深层的信念？
• PHRASE 一言不发;保持缄默
  If youholdyourtongue, you do not say anything even though you might want to or be expected to, because it is the wrong time to say it.
  1. Douglas held his tongue, preferring not to speak out on a politically sensitive issue.
     道格拉斯沉默不语，不愿谈论政治敏感问题。
• 正确发出(难读单词或短语)的音
  If you say that you can notgetyourtongue roundorarounda particular word or phrase, you mean that you find it very difficult to pronounce.
• PHRASE 口误
  If you describe something you said asa slip of the tongue, you mean that you said it by mistake.
  1. At one stage he referred to Anna as John's fiancée, but later said that was a slip of the tongue.
     曾有那么一段时间他把安娜称作约翰的未婚妻，但后来又说那是口误。
• tobiteyourtongue→ see:bite

双语例句

• The fire came roaring through the kitchen ceiling and sent its red tongues licking into the entrance hall
  大火蔓烧过厨房的天花板咆哮而来，红色的火舌朝门厅内卷去。
• I once knew every spell in all the tongues of elves.
  我以前知道所有精灵和人类。
• Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
  他们却用口馅媚他，用舌向他说谎。
• We found two human female tongues in his refrigerator.
  在他的冰箱里发现了两具女性舌头。
• You must stop visiting that woman; tongues are beginning to wag.
  你不要再到那个女人那里去了，已经有人说闲话了。
• What set tongues wagging was the age difference between the two partners.
  这对伴侣年龄上的差异招来了不少闲话。
• Save me, o lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
  耶和华啊！求你救我脱离说谎的嘴唇和2诡诈的舌头。
• Great tongues of flame shot up here and there.
  火舌四张。
• Words escape even the most cunning tongues.
  这是最狡诈的舌头说出的话。
• The promotion of official language and the preservation of mother tongues in the society with multi-lingual background are contradictory.
  多语言多文化背景下官方语言的推广和弱势族群母语的传承和维护是一对矛盾。