| 单词 | tongue |
| 释义 | noun | verb tonguetongue1 /tʌŋ/ ●●● S2 W3 noun 1MOUTH [countable] science, biology the soft movable part inside your mouth that you use for tasting and speaking: She moistened her lips with the tip of her tongue. She stuck her tongue out (=put her tongue outside her mouth as a rude gesture) at him.2LANGUAGE [countable] literary a language: a foreign tongue → see also mother tongue, native tongue at native1 (3)3SHOE the part of a shoe that lies on top of your foot, under the part where you tie it4have a silver/smooth tongue if you have a smooth tongue or a silver tongue, you can talk in a way that makes people like you or persuades them that you are right → see also -tongued5with (your) tongue in (your) cheek if you say something with tongue in cheek, you say it as a joke, not seriously → see also tongue-in-cheek6roll/trip off somebody’s tongue if a name, phrase, etc. rolls or trips off your tongue, it is easy or pleasant to say: Their names roll off the tongue very easily.7SHAPE [countable] literary something that has a long thin shape: tongue of tongues of flame8FOOD [uncountable] the tongue of a cow or sheep, cooked and eaten as food9tongues wag informal if tongues wag, people talk in an unkind way about someone: They live in a small town and tongues are beginning to wag.10hold your tongue! spoken old-fashioned used to tell someone angrily to stop speaking11get your tongue around something informal to be able to say a difficult word or phrase12keep a civil tongue in your head spoken old-fashioned used when you think someone should speak politely[Origin: Old English tunge] → see also bite your tongue at bite1 (4), cat got your tongue? at cat (7), find your voice/tongue at find1 (18), speak with forked tongue at forked (2), loosen somebody’s tongue at loosen (4), have a sharp tongue at sharp1 (5), a slip of the tongue/pen at slip2 (3), speak in tongues at speak (12), on the tip of your tongue at tip1 (5), watch your mouth/language/tongue! at watch1 (15) noun | verb tonguetongue2 verb 1[intransitive, transitive] eng. lang. arts technical to use your tongue to make separate sounds when playing a musical instrument that you blow2[transitive] to touch something with your tongue |
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