His team retreated last night with tails tucked firmly between their legs.
昨晚、,他的队伍灰溜溜地退场了、。
I turned tail and fled in the direction of the main house.
我掉头就跑,朝主屋方向逃去、。
Application: mainly use to shave rust and oil paint.
用途: 主要用来刮除铁锈和墙漆.
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The horse stood whisking its tail.
那匹马站着挥动尾巴.
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A dog reacts to kindness by wagging its tail.
狗摇尾巴以报答人们的爱护.
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The dog's tail wagged.
狗尾巴摇动着.
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The peacock spreads his splendid tail.
孔雀展开了它那灿烂夺目的尾巴.
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The number of tourists starts to tail off in October.
游客在十月份开始逐渐减少.
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真题例句
Sting in the tail Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists who seized on Obama's candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
Perhaps surprisingly, it is not all good news: there is a sting in the tail of the Obama effect
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
In America, white tailed deer are more numerous than ever before, so abundant in fact that they've become a suburban nuisance and a health hazard.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
"We'd assumed we'd have to give it a moving head and tail, facial features, and put a scene on it to make it smell like a real rat, but that wasn't necessary," says Janet wiles at the University of Queensland in Australia, who helped with the research.
2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
英英释义
Noun
1. the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
2. the time of the last part of something;
"the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"
"the tail of the storm"
3. any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
4. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"
"are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
5. a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
6. (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head