读音

/tʌŋ/

释义

• 名词:

  • 人的口腔内能说话和品尝食物的肌肉组织。例如: “The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth.”
  • 语言；方言。例如: “He can speak several tongues fluently.”
  • 触须，如昆虫或某些动物的类似器官。例如: “The snake flicked its tongue to sense the surroundings.”

• 动词:

  • 舔，用舌头接触。例如: “The cat tongues its paw clean.”
  • 嘲笑；讥讽。例如: “She was tongue-lashed by her teacher for being disrespectful.”

短语

• “Tongue twister” 是一种故意设计得难以快速正确说出的词语组合，用来练习发音。
• “Under one’s tongue” 意为“含在嘴里”，常用于药物吸收的表述。

例句

• 名词: “Watch where you stick your tongue, it might get burnt by the hot soup.”
• 动词: “The dog licked its lips, tongueing the remnants of food on the plate.”
• 连词: “He was so angry that he couldn’t find the right words to tongue his displeasure.”

同义词

• Language
• Dialect
• Speech
• Idiom
• Lingo