1 N-COUNT [usually poss NOUN] 舌;舌头 Your tongue is the soft movable part inside your mouth which you use for tasting, eating, and speaking. 舌;舌头
2 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. 说话能力;说话方式
SYN utterance, voice, speech, articulation
3 N-COUNT 语言 A tongue is a language. 语言 [literary]
SYN language, speech, vernacular, talk
5 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. (烹制后通常作为冷盘的)牛舌,羊舌
6 N-COUNT 鞋舌 The tongue of a shoe or boot is the piece of leather which is underneath the laces. 鞋舌
7 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. 舌状物;火舌;伸入水中的狭长陆地 [literary]
8 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. 无诚意的;虚情假意的
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...a lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek approach.
漫不经心、虚情假意的态度
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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。
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Were they written tongue-in-cheek, or with an underlying conviction?
它们只是随便写出来的呢,还是有什么深层的信念?
9 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. 一言不发;保持缄默
10 PHRASE [VERB inflects, PHRASE n, usually with brd-neg] 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. 正确发出(难读单词或短语)的音
11 PHRASE 口误 If you describe something you said as a slip of the tongue, you mean that you said it by mistake. 口误
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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。
12 to bite your tongue→see: bite
Word Partnership | Use tongue with: |
VERB. | bite your tongue, stick out your tongue 1 |
ADJ. | pink tongue 1 sharp tongue 2 |
N. | native tongue 3 |
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