tongue
n. 舌头; 说话能力; 语言; 鞋舌; 舌状物
v. 吹奏乐器; 舔
Your tongue is the soft movable part inside your mouth which you use for tasting, eating, and speaking.
I walked over to the mirror and stuck my tongue out...
我走到镜子前面伸出舌头。
She ran her tongue around her lips.
她用舌头舔了舔嘴唇。
You can use tongue to refer to the kind of things that a person says.
…her sharp wit and quick tongue…
她敏捷的才思和伶俐的口齿
She had a nasty tongue, but I liked her.
她言辞尖刻,但我喜欢她。
A tongue is a language.
The French feel passionately about their native tongue.
法国人对他们的母语非常热爱。
Tongue is the cooked tongue of an ox or sheep. It is usually eaten cold.
The tongue of a shoe or boot is the piece of leather which is underneath the laces.
A tongue of something such as fire or land is a long thin piece of it.
A yellow tongue of flame shot upwards.
一条黄色的火舌直冲上天。
…a silver, frozen tongue of water.
一条冻结了的银色水舌
A tongue-in-cheek remark or attitude is not serious, although it may seem to be.
...a lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek approach...
漫不经心、虚情假意的态度
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。
If you hold your tongue, you do not say anything even though you might want to or be expected to, because it is the wrong time to say it.
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。
If you say that you can not get your tongue round or around a particular word or phrase, you mean that you find it very difficult to pronounce.
If you describe something you said as a slip of the tongue, you mean that you said it by mistake.
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。
1. a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
2. a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
3. any long thin projection that is transient;
4. a manner of speaking;
5. a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
6. the tongue of certain animals used as meat
7. the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
8. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
1. articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
2. lick or explore with the tongue
language, speech, tongue, dialect, idiom, slang
这些名词均含"语言"之意。
find (或 lose) one's tongue
受惊后能(或不 能)说话了
get one's tongue round
念(单词)
the gift of tongues
圣灵所赐的特异的语言能力;口才
give tongue
(尤指猎狗闻到气味时)吠叫
keep a civil tongue in one's head
说话礼貌
(with) tongue in cheek
无诚意地,假心假意地
someone's tongue is hanging out
渴望得到(酒等)
hold (one's) tongue
安静,保持安静
lose (one's) tongue
失声:失去说话的能力,例如由于震惊
on the tip of (one's) tongue
差点说出某事:在被回忆出或表达出来的边缘
His annoyance had unbridled his tongue.
他的烦恼使他打开了话匣子.
The snake shot its tongue out.
蛇突然伸出舌头.
A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
口蜜腹剑.
Peppers sting the tongue.
胡椒蜇舌头.
The fellow has a very glib tongue.
这家伙嘴油得很.