tongues的中文翻译是什么意思

N-COUNT舌;舌头

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。

N-COUNT说话能力;说话方式

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。

N-COUNT语言

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。

N-VAR(烹制后通常作为冷盘的)牛舌，羊舌

Tongue is the cooked tongue of an ox or sheep. It is usually eaten cold.

N-COUNT鞋舌

The tongue of 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

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

PHRASE无诚意的;虚情假意的

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。

PHRASE一言不发;保持缄默

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。

PHRASE正确发出(难读单词或短语)的音

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.

PHRASE口误

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。