tongues的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT舌;舌頭

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。

N-COUNT說話能力;說話方式

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齒

• She had a nasty tongue, but I liked her.

  她言辭尖刻，但我喜歡她。

N-COUNT語言

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。

N-VAR(烹製後通常作為冷盤的)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舌狀物;火舌;伸入水中的狹長陸地

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

PHRASE無誠意的;虛情假意的

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。

PHRASE一言不發;保持緘默

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.

  道格拉斯沉默不語，不願談論政治敏感問題。

PHRASE正確發出(難讀單詞或短語)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口誤

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。