tongue

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT Your tongue is the soft movable part inside your mouth which you use for tasting, eating, and speaking. 舌頭
I walked over to the mirror and stuck my tongue out. 我走到鏡子前伸出舌頭。
2. N-COUNT You can use tongue to refer to the kind of things that a person says. 話語
She had a nasty tongue. 她滿口髒話。
3. N-COUNT A tongue is a language. 語言[文學性]
The French feel passionately about their native tongue. 法國人非常熱愛他們的母語。
4. PHRASE A tongue-in-cheek remark or attitude is not serious, although it may seem to be. 無誠意的
...a lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek approach. …一種漫不經(jīng)心、無誠意的態(tài)度。
5. to bite your tongue→see bite

The tip of the tongue is sensitive to salt and sweet stimuli and the back of the tongue is sensitive to bitter stimuli .
The horse rasped my hand with his tongue as I fed him the apple .
The poet compares his lover's tongue to a razor blade .
The doctor asked me to stick out my tongue and say 'aah '.
The tour guide kept sticking out her tongue and licking her lips - it was very distracting !