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tails

/teylz/US // teɪlz //UK // (teɪlz) //

尾巴,尾部,尾声,尾随

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : with the reverse facing up: On the next toss, the coin came up tails.Compare heads.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : tail.

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Examples

  • Chicken satay and shrimp cocktail are also good options, as you can watch the skewers and tails stack up.

  • She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”

  • Google has more than a million hits—and countless images—for the term “babies born with tails.”

  • Human tails are a genetic accident—and a big problem for the faux-scientific creationism known as ‘intelligent design.’

  • Human tails are part of the evolutionary baggage that we carry in our bodies, leftover from our ancestors.

  • The poor dandy showed a pair of straight coat-tails instanter, and the whole table joined in a "tremenjous" roar.

  • But I don't suppose Weston would bother spreading the tails out when he sat down.

  • He fed the monkeys with candy, and laughed to see them hang by their tails while they took it from his hand.

  • After all, bombs and grenades are easy things to make if the tails of the manufacturers are well twisted.

  • "Bears don't have tails, Benny," argued Jess—although she wasn't exactly sure she was right.