tentacle

英 [ˈtentəkl]

美 [ˈtentəkl]

n.  触角; 触手; 触须; (大的地方、组织或系统难以避免的)影响，束缚，约束

复数：tentacles　过去式：tentacled　

TOEFLIELTS医学

Collins.1 / BNC.7471 / COCA.12431

牛津词典

noun

• 触角；触手；触须
  a long thin part of the body of some creatures, such as an octopus , used for feeling or holding things, for moving or for getting food
  1. Tentacles of fear closed around her body.
     恐惧的阴影笼罩着她。
• （大的地方、组织或系统难以避免的）影响，束缚，约束
  the influence that a large place, organization or system has and that is hard to avoid
  1. The tentacles of satellite television are spreading even wider.
     卫星电视的影响正日益扩大。

柯林斯词典

• (章鱼等的)触须，触手，触角
  Thetentaclesof an animal such as an octopus are the long thin parts that are used for feeling and holding things, for getting food, and for moving.
• N-COUNT (政治、商业、社会等机构的)影响力，触角
  If you talk about thetentaclesof a political, commercial, or social organization, you are referring to the power and influence that it has in the outside community.
  1. Free speech is being gradually eroded year after year by new tentacles of government control.
     言论自由正在一年又一年逐渐被政府不断施加的影响力所削弱。

英英释义

noun

• any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals
• something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
  1. caught in the tentacles of organized crime

双语例句

• The ground-breaking effects used in The Abyss to digitally depict the water tentacle convinced Cameron that his liquid metal villain was now possible.
  在《深渊》一片中破天荒使用了数字特效技术制作液态生物触手后，卡梅隆终于有充足的信心来制作续集里的液态金属反派机器人了。
• Results: The description and transverse features of transverse section of the rhizome were described, and in the powder the microscopic features such as cluster needle crystals, tentacle, ring-thread vessel were found.
  结果：描述了中华秋海棠根茎的性状和横切面结构特征，发现其含有簇状针晶、腺毛、环螺纹导管等显微特征。
• Stretched inertia tentacle guarantee the electronic contacting of sensor and metal to be tested.
  传感器前端的磁铁可起到对传感器的固定和对密封胶提供压力的作用，弹性的惰性触头可以解决传感器与待测金属的电接触问题。
• The team's findings will be presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting tomorrow, where the shrimp and the tentacle will be a hot topic for discussion.
  这个研究结果将于明天在美国地球物理学联盟会议上公布，那时发现的虾和触须将是讨论的热门话题。
• The term may also denote the limb or the locomotive or prehensile organ of an invertebrate ( e.g., the ray of a starfish or the tentacle of an octopus).
  arm一词亦指无脊椎动物的附肢或运动器官，如海星的腕、章鱼的触手和腕足纲动物的腕足。
• Acanthopanax sessiliflorus adaxial leaf epidemic cells arrange tightly with tentacle distribution. Most air holes are distributed around leaf veins.
  短梗五加的叶的近轴面表皮细胞排列紧密，有腺毛分布，远轴面表皮具气孔，气孔多分布在叶脉处。
• Digestion, defecation and tentacles 'growth were observed by marking the food with 0.01% neutral red, operating the tentacle and cutting sections.
  用中性红标记水螅饵料、手术触手及组织切片等方法，研究水螅的消化、排遗和触手生长模式。
• In the mantle tentacle, many round cells and wavelike nerve fibers presented strongly NOS-positivity.
  外套触手内有较多近圆形细胞和大量波浪形神经纤维呈NOS强阳性；
• Each tentacle is designed as a structure with Fin Ray Effect.
  每个“触角”都设计成鱼鳍鳍条结构。
• If a gluey tentacle grabs too little of a big fly, the bug may suffer injury but still struggle to freedom.
  大个子苍蝇，即使没被粘性触须粘上多少，也受伤了，在竭力挣扎，为自由而奋斗。