tooth的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT牙;齒

Your teeth are the hard white objects in your mouth, which you use for biting and chewing.

• She had very pretty straight teeth...

  她有一口漂亮整齊的牙齒。

• If a tooth feels very loose, your dentist may recommend that it's taken out.

  如果某顆牙鬆動得很厲害，牙醫會建議把它拔掉。

N-PLURAL齒狀物;(梳子、鋸、齒輪、拉鍊等的)齒

The teeth of something such as a comb, saw, cog, or zip are the parts that stick out in a row on its edge.

• The front cog has 44 teeth.

  前齒輪有 44 個齒。

N-PLURAL(官方組織、法律等的)威力，效力

If you say that something such as an official group or a law has teeth, you mean that it has power and is able to be effective.

• The opposition argues that the new council will be unconstitutional and without teeth...

  反對派爭辯說新委員會不但違反憲法，而且沒有效力。

• The law must have teeth, and it must be enforced.

  法律必須擁有效力，而且必須強制實施。

PHRASE全副武裝;武裝到牙齒

Someone who is armed to the teeth is armed with a lot of weapons or with very effective weapons.

• Both sides were armed to the teeth.

  雙方都全副武裝。

PHRASE獲得初步經驗(或訓練);起步

If you say that someone cut their teeth doing a particular thing, at a particular time, or in a particular place, you mean that that is how, when, or where they began their career and learned some of their skills.

• ...director John Glen, who cut his teeth on Bond movies...

  從邦德電影開始初試牛刀的導演約翰·格倫

• He cut his teeth in the sixties as director of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.

  他 60 年代剛出道時在愛丁堡特拉弗斯劇院擔任導演。

PHRASE使人感到極其不舒服(或惱怒)

If you say that something sets your teeth on edge, you mean that you find it extremely unpleasant or irritating.

• Their voices set your teeth on edge.

  他們的聲音讓你渾身不舒服。

PHRASE奮力爭取/竭盡全力阻止

If you fight tooth and nail to do something, you do everything you can in order to achieve it. If you fight something tooth and nail, you do everything you can in order to prevent it.

• He fought tooth and nail to keep his job...

  他竭盡全力保住自己的工作。

• Unions pledged to fight any compulsory redundancies 'tooth and nail'.

  工會許諾會“竭盡所能地”阻止任何強制裁員。

PHRASE潛心專注於;全力投入

If you describe a task or activity as something you can get your teeth into, you mean that you like it because it is interesting, complex, and makes you think hard.

• This role gave her something to get her teeth into...

  這一角色讓她全情投入其中。

• They have to get involved and get their teeth into some police work.

  他們必須參與進來，全力投入到一些警務工作中。

PHRASE直對;頂著;不顧

If you do something in the teeth of a difficulty or danger, you do it in spite of the difficulty or danger.

• I was battling my way along the promenade in the teeth of a force ten gale...

  我不顧十級大風沿著步行街掙扎前行。

• In the teeth of the longest recession since the 1930s, the company continues to perform well.

  儘管面對 20 世紀 30 年代以來持續時間最長的經濟衰退，這家公司卻一直經營良好。

PHRASE滿口謊話;睜著眼說瞎話

If you say that someone is lying through their teeth, you are emphasizing that they are telling lies.

PHRASE年邁的;年老的

If you describe someone as long in the tooth, you are saying unkindly or humorously that they are old or getting old.

• Aren't I a bit long in the tooth to start being an undergraduate?

  我現在才去讀大學本科不是有點太老了嗎？

PHRASE愛吃甜食

If you have a sweet tooth, you like sweet food very much.

• Add more honey if you have a sweet tooth.

  如果你喜歡吃甜的就多加點蜂蜜。