MOUTH 嘴, [C] 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.

乔用舌头舔舔干燥的嘴唇。

The taste of the chocolate was still on her tongue.

巧克力的余味依然留在她的唇齿之间。

The girl scowled at me, then stuck out her tongue .

女孩怒视着我，然后吐了一下舌头。

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。

sharp tongue, if 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。

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

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

with (your) tongue in (your) cheek, if 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

slip of the tongue, a small mistake in something you say

说漏了嘴，说错了话，口误:

Did I say $100? It must have been a slip of the tongue.

我说过 100 美元吗？ 那一定是口误。

bite your tongue, to 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。

Cat got your tongue? also Lost your tongue?, [spoken] used to ask someone why they are not talking

怎么不说话了？ 怎么哑巴了？

get your tongue around sth, [informal] 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个村庄的名字。

trip / roll off the tongue, [informal] 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〕能流畅地讲出来:

Their names trip off the tongue very easily.

他们的名字念起来很上口。

loosen sb's tongue, [informal] 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.

喝了酒，她的话自然变得多了起来。

find your tongue, [informal] 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。

set tongues wagging, to 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。

keep a civil tongue in your head, [old-fashioned spoken] used to tell someone that they should talk politely to people

说话要讲礼貌

speak with forked tongue, to say things that are not true – used humorously

说谎〔幽默用法〕

speak in tongues, to talk using strange words as part of a religious experience

说奇怪的话〔一种宗教体验〕

18 LANGUAGE 语言 [literary] a language 语言; 方言:

Anton lapsed into his own tongue when he was excited.

安东一激动就会说自己的家乡话。

She felt more comfortable talking in her native tongue.

她说母语感觉更放松。

FOOD 食物, [U] the tongue of a cow or sheep, cooked and eaten cold

口条〔牛羊等舌头，制成食品，可做凉菜〕

SHAPE 形状, [C] something that has a long thin shape

舌状物:

Huge tongues of fire were licking the side of the building.

巨大的火舌吞卷着大楼的一侧。

SHOE 鞋, [C] the part of a shoe that lies on top of your foot, under the part where you tie it

鞋舌

[I,T] to use your tongue to make separate sounds when playing a musical instrument

用运舌法吹奏（管乐器）

[T] to touch something with your tongue

用舌头触碰，舔