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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 2831 COCA: 2871

tongue

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tongue1 /tʌŋ/ ●●● S3 W3 noun  
1  mouth 嘴 [countableC]HBH the soft part inside your mouth that you can move about and use for eating and speaking 舌，舌头
 Joe ran his tongue over his dry lips.
乔舔了舔干燥的嘴唇。
 The taste of the chocolate was still on her tongue.
巧克力的余味依然留在她的舌尖。
 The girl scowled at me, then stuck out her tongue.
女孩怒视着我，然后吐了一下舌头。
2  click your tongue to make a sharp noise with your tongue to show that you are annoyed or disappointed 〔因生气或失望而〕咂嘴
 She clicked her tongue and shook her head.
她咂了一下嘴，摇了摇头。
Examples from the Corpus
click your tongue• I sigh and click my tongue at these, of course.• The clock clicks its tongue ... trial and error.• He clicked his tongue, the cob plodded resolutely forward and so did I. And it was easy!• Church speculated with a long-range squirt, clicking his tongue in self-reproach as he did.• There was a human quality, too, to the noise, as if several women were clicking their tongues at great speed.• Kha Yang clicked his tongue then.
3  sharp tongue TALK TO somebodyif you have a sharp tongue, you often talk in a way that shows you are angry 尖刻的嘴巴
 Gina’s sharp tongue will get her into trouble one day.
吉娜那张尖刻的嘴巴早晚会给她惹麻烦的。
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sharp tongue• Only that you have a sharp tongue and an undisciplined sister, neither of which attributes I find endearing.• They opened their mouths to show her sharp tongues and teeth, ready to bite, gobble her up.• She was still slightly in awe of Violette, her worldliness, her sharp tongue.• How I try to punish my parents with my sharp tongue.• If Toyah cuts that easily she'd better watch herself on Linda's sharp tongue.• Nobody but nobody commented on Maggie's shapely form - not unless they wanted acid dripping on them from that sharp tongue.• Oh, she has the sharpest tongue!• The men are white-haired and silent, the women dark-haired with sharp tongues.
4. silver tongue literary if you have a silver tongue, you can talk in a way that makes people like you or persuades them that you are right 说话动听，能说会道
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silver tongue• A man with a silver tongue like you should be out making a million dollars for himself, like my son.• Ruth thought it more likely that his silver tongue had got around her.• But unlike Douglass he had no oratorical gift, no passionate language, no silver tongue.
5  sharp-tongued/silver-tongued etc able to talk in a very angry or pleasant way 说话尖刻的/说话动听的等
 a sharp-tongued young teacher
说话尖刻的年轻教师
6. with (your) tongue in (your) cheek JOKING/NOT SERIOUSif you say something with your tongue in your cheek, you say it as a joke, not seriously 〔说话〕不当真的，开玩笑的 → tongue-in-cheek
7  slip of the tongue MISTAKEa small mistake in something you say 说错了话，口误
 Did I say $100? It must have been a slip of the tongue.
我说100美元吗？那一定是口误。
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slip of the tongue• Did I say "Harlow"? Sorry, I meant "Harrow". It was just a slip of the tongue.• They both use the same root consonants, which are rearranged as in a dream or a slip of the tongue.• In an apparent slip of the tongue, Ms. Bianchi referred to Omaha as Oklahoma.• Much of the humour derives from slips of the tongue, an occupational hazard.• One slip of the tongue would have betrayed all I was working for.• He had made an unfortunate slip of the tongue himself.• He quickly corrected his unfortunate slip of the tongue.
8  bite your tongue SAYto stop yourself saying something because you know it would not be sensible to say it 忍住不说，保持缄默
 I wanted to argue, but I had to bite my tongue.
我想辩驳，但又不得不保持缄默。
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bite your tongue• Whatever the reason, Dauntless bit his tongue and resolved to put up with Cleo Sinister.• But they want a pink one, so Ralph takes out a pink one, bites his tongue.• Polly battled on, practically biting her tongue in half.• Always ready to knock on wood, throw salt over my shoulder, bite my tongue, cross my fingers.• It's all very well telling some one to bite their tongue and not fight back.• Tell them to bite their tongues.• He's not and would be wise to bite his tongue.
9. Cat got your tongue?  (also Lost your tongue?) spokenTALK TO somebody used to ask someone why they are not talking 怎么不说话了？怎么哑巴了？
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Cat got your tongue?• What's happened to all your brains, Frankie boy? Cat got your tongue?
10  get your tongue around something informalSAY to be able to say a difficult word or phrase 说出〔某个拗口的词或短语〕
 I couldn’t get my tongue around the names of the villages we’d visited.
我说不来我们去过的那些村庄的名字。
Examples from the Corpus
get your tongue around something• I couldn't get my tongue around the consonants.
11  trip/roll off the tongue informalSAY if a name or phrase trips or rolls off your tongue, it is easy or pleasant to say 〔某个名字或短语〕顺口
 Their names trip off the tongue very easily.
他们的名字很顺口。
Examples from the Corpus
trip/roll off the tongue• Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.• A name which trips off the tongue.
12  loosen somebody’s tongue informalTALK TO somebody if something such as alcohol loosens your tongue, it makes you talk a lot 〔喝酒等〕使某人话多，使某人管不住嘴
 The wine had certainly loosened her tongue.
她喝了酒，话当然就变得多了起来。
13  find your tongue informalTALK TO somebody to say something after you have been silent for a time because you were afraid or shy 〔因害怕或害羞而沉默之后〕终于开口说话
 Polly found her tongue at last and told them about the attack.
波莉终于开口说话，告诉了他们袭击的经过。
Examples from the Corpus
find your tongue• She moved her mouth about a bit to see if she could find her tongue.• When she came into the room, I had trouble finding my tongue.
14  set tongues wagging TALK TO somebodyto do something that people will talk about in an unkind way 使人议论纷纷，招闲话
 Angela’s divorce will certainly set tongues wagging.
安杰拉的离婚肯定会招来闲言碎语。
15. keep a civil tongue in your head old-fashioned spokenPOLITE used to tell someone that they should talk politely to people 说话要讲礼貌
16. speak with forked tongue LIE/TELL A LIEto say things that are not true – used humorously 说谎〔幽默用法〕
Examples from the Corpus
speak with forked tongue• The governor has been known to speak with forked tongue.
17. speak in tongues RRCto talk using strange words as part of a religious experience 说方言〔一种宗教体验〕
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speak in tongues• The first time I ever heard anyone speak in tongues I found it strange, fascinating, and a little frightening.• Nor did he invent that particularly intense expression of yearning called speaking in tongues.• Hearing people in the church speak in tongues fascinated me.• They prance about with their eyes closed, speaking in tongues.• He seems transformed, as though he is speaking in tongues.• When he is speaking in tongues, the pattern is always the same.• Teenage girls returned from that camp with stories of speaking in tongues and exorcising evil spirits.• And, for the first time in eighteen years, she spoke in tongues.• If you spoke in tongues you were baptized by the Spirit, if you did not you were not.
18  language 语言 literarySL a language 语言；方言
 Anton lapsed into his own tongue when he was excited.
安东一激动就说家乡话。
mother/native tongue (=the language you learn as a child) 母语
 She felt more comfortable talking in her native tongue.
她说母语感觉更放松。
19. food 食物 [uncountableU]DF the tongue of a cow or sheep, cooked and eaten cold 口条〔牛羊等的舌头，可做凉菜〕
20  shape 形状 [countableC]CF something that has a long thin shape 舌状物
tongue of
 Huge tongues of fire were licking the side of the building.
巨大的火舌吞卷着大楼的一侧。
21. shoe 鞋DC [countableC] the part of a shoe that lies on top of your foot, under the part where you tie it 鞋舌 →4  See picture of 见图 FOOTWEAR
→ on the tip of your tongue at tip1(5), → hold your tongue at hold1(29)
Examples from the Corpus
tongue• Russian is not a tongue I speak.• She moistened her lips with the tip of her tongue and his sudden tension told her she was right.• Her tongue turned black and choked her.• Always soft and fuzzed with pocket lint, they would sit on his tongue like dry bitter cotton.• As soon as he saw the tongues, he knew.• The computer, for disabled people, is operated using your tongue.
stuck out ... tongue• Stuart sighed and Linda Paterson stuck out her tongue at him.• Her eyes flickered towards him and she playfully stuck out her tongue.• She stuck out her tongue. ` Anyway, emergency medicine is great stuff.
mother/native tongue• An assistant began waving his arms and talking to the dealer noisily in his native tongue.• The words, in his native tongue, were few and easy to learn.• It was weird, because it sure sounded like my native tongue.• But for most of us our native tongue is alive and constantly shifting.• At first it seems the girls are singing in their native tongue.
tongue of• the thirsty tongues of tree roots
tongue2 verb  
1. [intransitiveI, transitiveT] to use your tongue to make separate sounds when playing a musical instrument 〔演奏管乐器时〕用运舌法吹奏（音符）
2. [transitiveT] to touch something with your tongue 用舌头触碰，舔
Examples from the Corpus
tongue• Her hair was rather wild, her tongue eloquent.
Origin tongue
Old English tunge
tongue1 noun
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tongue2 verb
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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 2831 COCA: 2871
tongue

noun¹

 1soft part inside the mouth舌頭ADJECTIVE | VERB + TONGUE | TONGUE + VERB | TONGUE + NOUN | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤long長舌▸➤forked叉狀舌▸➤loose, sharp (both figurative) 口風不嚴；說話尖刻◇Everyone knows now, thanks to Ken's loose tongue (= he could not keep the secret).拜肯那張破嘴所賜，現在每個人都知道了。◇He has a reputation for having a sharp tongue.他說話尖刻是有名的。◇She could tear a man to pieces in three minutes with her sharp tongue.她那張尖酸刻薄的嘴可以在 3 分鐘內把一個男人批得體無完膚。VERB + TONGUE➤poke out, put out, stick out伸出舌頭◇It's very rude to stick your tongue out at people.衝人吐舌頭很粗魯。➤run移動舌頭◇He ran his tongue nervously over his lips.他緊張地用舌頭舔着嘴唇。➤click咂舌；彈舌▸➤bite, hold (both figurative) 忍住話；保持沉默◇She was dying to say something sarcastic to him, but bit her tongue and stayed silent.她很想挖苦他幾句，但還是忍了下來，沒有說話。➤free, loosen (both figurative) 使自由自在地說；使無拘無束地說◇The wine had loosened his tongue.酒一下肚他就打開了話匣子。➤roll off, slip off, trip off容易說；順口◇It's not a name that exactly trips off the tongue (= is easy to say).這不是一個很順口的名字。TONGUE + VERB➤hang out舌頭耷拉在外面◇The dog lay in a patch of shade with its tongue hanging out.那條狗躺在一塊陰涼處，舌頭耷拉在嘴外面。➤flick, flicker舌頭快速伸出／顫動◇The snake's tongue flicked out of its mouth.那條蛇吐出芯子。➤lick sth舌頭舔⋯◇His tongue licked dry lips.他用舌頭舔着乾燥的嘴唇。➤wag (figurative) 嚼舌頭；說閒話◇This is a small island and tongues are beginning to wag (= people are beginning to gossip).這個島很小，人們開始說閒話了。➤find (figurative) 開口說話◇Before she could find her tongue (= speak) the door had closed behind him.她還沒有來得及開口，他就甩門而去了。➤watch (figurative) 小心言辭◇You just watch your tongue (= be careful what you say).你說話留點兒神。TONGUE + NOUN➤piercing舌頭穿眼兒◇I had a tongue piercing, an ear piercing, and a nose ring.我的舌頭和耳朵穿了眼兒，鼻子上帶了一隻環。PHRASES➤a slip of the tongue (figurative) 口誤◇He said it was a slip of the tongue (= a mistake in speaking) and apologized.他說那是一個口誤，並且道了歉。➤be on the tip of your tongue (figurative) 話到嘴邊◇It was on the tip of her tongue to refuse.她話到嘴邊想要拒絕。➤get your tongue around sth, get your tongue round sth (BrE, figurative) 準確地發出⋯音◇He was having trouble getting his tongue around my name.他唸我的名字有困難。➤a tongue of fire, a tongue of flame火舌◇Tongues of flame licked up the walls.火舌吞噬了牆壁。
tongue

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 2a language語言ADJECTIVE | VERB + TONGUE | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤mother, native母語；本族語◇She speaks English, though her native tongue is German.她說英語，不過她的母語是德語。➤common通用語；共同語▸➤foreign外語▸➤strange陌生的語言VERB + TONGUE➤speak說⋯語◇They were speaking a foreign tongue.他們在說外語。PREPOSITION➤in a/the tongue用⋯語言◇She could hear the men whispering in a foreign tongue.她能聽到那幾名男子在用外語竊竊私語。PHRASES➤speak in tongues (= to speak in unknown languages, esp. at a religious ceremony) （尤指在宗教儀式上）說異語
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 2831 COCA: 2871
tongue noun
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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 2831 COCA: 2871

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