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

• Zoology A sensory or tactile organ, such as an antenna, a tentacle, or a barbel.
  感觉或触觉器官，例如触角、触手或触须。
• Each tentacle is covered with stinging cells ( cnidocytes) that can sting or kill other animals: most jellyfish use them to secure prey or for defence.
  它的触须从体内伸出，每根触须上都带有可以伤害甚至杀害其他动物的毒刺。水母大都用这些刺来捕食或自卫。
• Spindle shaped cells were seen in homogeneous form on day 7 in culture with few tentacle.
  培养7天见较多长梭形细胞，形态相对单一、触角少。
• 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 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。
• The debris of food was piled up on the top of tentacle cavity and was evacuated when the top tissue aged and cracked.
  触手腔食物泡残骸逐渐贮存于触手腔顶端，待顶端衰老死亡组织破裂时喷出体外。
• 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。
• 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。
• Once they seize hold, each tentacle begins to curl and extend, as the oligo squeezes the cytoplasm out of itself until only a cellophane-like sheet of membrane remains.
  一旦被它抓住，每个触须就会卷曲和延伸。象少突细胞挤压细胞质那样直到变成一张象玻璃纸那样薄的隔膜。
• 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；