1. 舌;舌頭 Your tongue is the soft movable part inside your mouth which you use for tasting, eating, and speaking.
e.g. I walked over to the mirror and stuck my tongue out... 我走到鏡子前面伸出舌頭。 e.g. She ran her tongue around her lips. 她用舌頭舔了舔嘴唇。
2. 說(shuō)話(huà)能力;說(shuō)話(huà)方式 You can use tongue to refer to the kind of things that a person says.
e.g. …h(huán)er sharp wit and quick tongue… 她敏捷的才思和伶俐的口齒 e.g. She had a nasty tongue, but I liked her. 她言辭尖刻,但我喜歡她。
3. 語(yǔ)言 A tongue is a language.
e.g. The French feel passionately about their native tongue. 法國人對他們的母語(yǔ)非常熱愛(ài)。
4. (烹制后通常作為冷盤(pán)的)牛舌,羊舌 Tongue is the cooked tongue of an ox or sheep. It is usually eaten cold.
tongue的解釋
5. 鞋舌 The tongue of a shoe or boot is the piece of leather which is underneath the laces.
6. 舌狀物;火舌;伸入水中的狹長(cháng)陸地 A tongue of something such as fire or land is a long thin piece of it.
e.g. A yellow tongue of flame shot upwards. 一條黃色的火舌直沖上天。 e.g. …a silver, frozen tongue of water. 一條凍結了的銀色水舌
7. 無(wú)誠意的;虛情假意的 A tongue-in-cheek remark or attitude is not serious, although it may seem to be.
e.g. ...a lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek approach... 漫不經(jīng)心、虛情假意的態(tài)度 e.g. 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(diǎn)。
8. 一言不發(fā);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.
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e.g. Douglas held his tongue, preferring not to speak out on a politically sensitive issue. 道格拉斯沉默不語(yǔ),不愿談?wù)撜蚊舾袉?wèn)題。
9. 正確發(fā)出(難讀單詞或短語(yǔ))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.
10. 口誤 If you describe something you said as a slip of the tongue, you mean that you said it by mistake.
tongue的意思
e.g. At one stage he referred to Anna as John's fiancée, but later said that was a slip of the tongue. 曾有那么一段時(shí)間他把安娜稱(chēng)作約翰的未婚妻,但后來(lái)又說(shuō)那是口誤。
11. to bite your tongue -> see bite
tongue英英釋義
noun
1. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
Synonym: clapper
2. the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
3. a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
Synonym: linguaglossaclapper
4. a human written or spoken language used by a community opposed to e.g. a computer language
Synonym: natural language
5. a manner of speaking
e.g. he spoke with a thick tongue she has a glib tongue
6. the tongue of certain animals used as meat
7. a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
Synonym: spit
8. any long thin projection that is transient
e.g. tongues of flame licked at the walls rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark
Synonym: knife
verb
1. lick or explore with the tongue
2. articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments