| 词汇 | tentacle |
| 释义 | tentacle noun[ C ] uk /ˈten.tə.kəl/ us /ˈten.t̬ə.kəl/ one of the long, thin parts like arms of some sea animals, used for feeling and holding things, catching food, or moving（海洋动物的）触手，触角 Dolucan/iStock/Getty Image Plus/GettyImages Miscellaneous animal body parts back end blowhole bobtail caudate claw dorsal fin dorsally giblets gill hindquarters nipple pincer pouch pouched pseudopod reticulum scut speculum sting udder So, when the blanket octopus swims by a Portuguese man-of-war, it takes a tentacle. Tentacles are the things that look like long legs. Then it can hit its predators with the tentacle. This animal has tentacles with venom on them. When a clownfish chooses a sea anemone for a home, it lightly touches the tentacles with every part of its body to get used to the stings. tentacle | American Dictionarytentacle noun[ C ] us/ˈten·tɑ·kəl/ a long, thin, arm of some sea animals, such as the octopus and jellyfish Examples of tentacletentacle Moreover, for technical convenience the hyperedge is assumed to have exactly one tentacle to the replaced node. Like an aggressive carcinoma, realizability stretches out its tentacles to ever more remote fields: linear logic, complexity theory and rewrite theory have already been infected. The guardian state has increasingly extended its tentacles over international monetary policy options such that no viable international regime could ever compromise national economic autonomy. Networks and their tentacles are exposed throughout the book, which illustrate how much business was transacted through the auspices of civil society. Tentacles ribbon-like, 0.120 (0.112 - 0.136) wide, the longest tentacle not totally extroverted, 1.68 long. They also interpreted this species as a sessile benthic cnidarian and depicted tentacles in the reconstruction. A single moon ray, which breaks through the horizontal bars of the glass dome, sheds its magical light on the main switch, which glitters like a tentacle. Another tentacle stretches out and with infinite tact, but great firmness, entwines itself round the sturdy limbs of the local authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The tentacles of this octopus are going to stretch a very long way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This octopus has its tentacles all over the world, in combination with smaller combines. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But there are other areas where the octopus is gently putting its tentacles round our unsuspecting constitution. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That must be a factor in drawing people into the pernicious tentacles of the drug culture. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Eurocrats see them as opportunities to extend their tentacles of power. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English That is what it means: the tentacles of the telephone system spreading among the population. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Suddenly there was a withdrawal of all peace tentacles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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