ivory

noun

1. 象牙；（某些其他动物的）长牙
   a hard yellowish-white substance like bone that forms the tusks (= long teeth) of elephants and some other animals
   1. a ban on the ivory trade
      象牙贸易禁令
   2. an ivory chess set
      一副象牙国际象棋
2. 象牙制品
   an object made of ivory
3. 象牙色；乳白色
   a yellowish-white colour

1. N-UNCOUNT 象牙
   Ivory is a hard cream-coloured substance which forms the tusks of elephants. It is valuable and can be used for making carved ornaments.
   1. ...the international ban on the sale of ivory.
      禁止销售象牙的国际禁令
   2. ...intricate ivory carvings.
      精致的象牙雕刻品
2. 象牙色;乳白色
   Ivory is a creamy-white colour.

1. The ivory industry employed about a thousand carvers.
   象牙行业的从业牙雕师约有一千名。
2. The Ivory Coast became the world's leading cocoa producer.
   象牙海岸成为世界上可可粉的主要产地。
3. It's a very emotional issue. How can you advocate selling the ivory from elephants?
   这是个很容易激起公愤的话题。你怎么能够鼓吹贩卖象牙？
4. They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
   他们身处象牙塔中，并不真正了解毒品犯罪的危害有多大。
5. He showed him how to blow into the ivory mouthpiece.
   他给他演示如何吹奏象牙吹口乐器。
6. The rebels have opened the road from Monrovia to the Ivory Coast
   叛乱分子已经开放了从蒙罗维亚到象牙海岸的道路。
7. Each piece is unique, an exquisite painting of a real person, done on ivory
   每一件艺术品都是绘在象牙上的精美绝伦的真人肖像，都是独一无二的。
8. What exquisite [ delicate] ivory carvings these are!
   这几件象牙雕刻做得真细！
9. The panel had a veneer of gold and ivory.
   这木板上面镶饰了一层金和象牙。
10. It is carved from ivory.
    它是用象牙雕成的。
11. The ivory Buddha carved by Shen Weizhong, a contemporary Chinese sculptor, is the world's smallest piece of sculpture, its size being just four-fifths that of a grain of rice.
    中国当代雕刻工艺师沈为众雕刻的象牙佛像是世界上最小的雕刻。这个象牙佛像只有一粒米的五分之四大。
12. These Ivory figures are so minutely and elaborately carved that the finest details can be distinguished.
    人物形象在这些牙雕艺术品里刻得纤毫毕见。
13. He was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
    他出生于象牙海岸首都阿比让，现在比利时布鲁塞尔居住和工作。
14. We think the parallel illegal trade from poached ivory comes to Hong Kong and is laundered with existing stocks.
    我们认为，暗地里进行的非法贸易，让偷猎的象牙流入了香港，并且被人用现有的库存洗白了。
15. But there are examples in silk and leather; bamboo and plastic; metal; ivory; and feathers.
    但还有其它用丝绸和皮革、竹子和塑料、金属、象牙以及羽毛制成的手袋。
16. The researchers say Gambia and Ivory Coast suffered more during the food crisis than Mali did.
    研究人员称在粮食危机期间冈比亚和象牙海岸比马里遭受了更大的威胁。
17. I have a large body with wrinkled skin and tusks made out of ivory.
    我有一个满是褶皱皮肤的庞大身躯和尖尖的象牙。
18. Gold and ivory and slaves came north from sub-Saharan Africa;
    黄金和象牙以及奴隶从下撒哈拉运来北方。
19. Our country has joined an international ban on ivory trading.
    我们国家已加入了国际对象牙贸易的禁令。
20. The ivory, the gold, and the pearls all received their appointment.
    象牙，金子和珠宝都得到了安置。
21. He carved out a flower of ivory.
    他雕出了一朵象牙花。
22. The government has put a ban on the import of ivory.
    政府已经放置了一条对象牙的输入禁令。
23. A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.
    一种坚硬而光滑的乳白色牙质，构成大象和海象的大部分长牙。
24. My classmates are married, and I was hiding the ivory tower;
    我的同学们都成家立业了，我还在象牙塔里躲藏；
25. A decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals.
    用刷了漆的木头构成的一种装饰性的工艺品，木头里经常嵌有象牙或贵重金属。
26. In former times the people of this country trade in gold, ivory and slaves.
    以前这个国家的人做买卖用金子、象牙和奴隶。
27. It's like you have Ivory smuggled in or something.
    看上去你这些好像走私进来的象牙或者什么的。
28. Mali is not a coastal country with ports like Ivory Coast and Gambia.
    马里不是海岸国家，不像象牙海岸和冈比亚一样拥有港口。
29. I'd like a kitchen mostly in ivory and light green.
    我想要一间全是象牙色和浅绿色的厨房。

noun

1. a shade of white the color of bleached bones

   Synonym:    bonepearloff-white

2. a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

   Synonym:    tusk