tongue
n. 舌頭; 說話能力; 語言; 鞋舌; 舌狀物
v. 吹奏樂器; 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...
我走到鏡子前面伸出舌頭。
She ran her tongue around her lips.
她用舌頭舔了舔嘴唇。
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齒
She had a nasty tongue, but I liked her.
她言辭尖刻,但我喜歡她。
A tongue is a language.
The French feel passionately about their native tongue.
法國人對他們的母語非常熱愛。
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.
一條黃色的火舌直衝上天。
…a silver, frozen tongue of water.
一條凍結了的銀色水舌
A tongue-in-cheek remark or attitude is not serious, although it may seem to be.
...a lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek approach...
漫不經心、虛情假意的態度
This is all slightly tongue-in-cheek, I'd like to make that clear…
這一切都有些缺少誠意,我想清楚地指出這點。
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.
道格拉斯沉默不語,不願談論政治敏感問題。
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.
曾有那麼一段時間他把安娜稱作約翰的未婚妻,但後來又說那是口誤。
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
這些名詞均含"語言"之意。
find (或 lose) one's tongue
受驚後能(或不 能)說話了
get one's tongue round
念(單詞)
the gift of tongues
聖靈所賜的特異的語言能力;口才
give tongue
(尤指獵狗聞到氣味時)吠叫
keep a civil tongue in one's head
說話禮貌
(with) tongue in cheek
無誠意地,假心假意地
someone's tongue is hanging out
渴望得到(酒等)
hold (one's) tongue
安靜,保持安靜
lose (one's) tongue
失聲:失去說話的能力,例如由於震驚
on the tip of (one's) tongue
差點說出某事:在被回憶出或表達出來的邊緣
His annoyance had unbridled his tongue.
他的煩惱使他開啟了話匣子.
The snake shot its tongue out.
蛇突然伸出舌頭.
A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
口蜜腹劍.
Peppers sting the tongue.
胡椒蜇舌頭.
The fellow has a very glib tongue.
這傢伙嘴油得很.