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tattoo

/ta-too/US // tæˈtu //UK // (tæˈtuː) //

纹身,刺青,文身,纹身

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural tat·toos.

    • : a signal on a drum, bugle, or trumpet at night, for soldiers or sailors to go to their quarters.
    • : a knocking or strong pulsation: My heart beat a tattoo on my ribs.
    • : British. an outdoor military pageant or display.

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Examples

  • As Mamerow’s condition progressed, her eyebrows disappeared, the hair now replaced by a subtle tattoo of fine lines designed to replicate eyebrows.

  • Luckily for Gelsinger’s marriage, the tattoo was only temporary and the photo was staged.

  • If tattoo pigments are too small, the immune system rapidly clears them from the skin and the tattoo disappears.

  • They demonstrated the cancer-detecting tattoo in living mice.

  • You can’t walk into a doctor’s office and get a dynamic tattoo yet, but they are on the way.

  • The findings revealed that, in 1999, only 21 percent of Americans claimed someone in their household had a tattoo.

  • Her make-up includes two tattoo-like designs on both temples.

  • There was one guy who had a tattoo of me on his inner thigh.

  • Look at The Killing, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, all of these Scandinavian things with female investigators.

  • Kastigar still had the tattoo, but he had grown a beard and lost a front tooth.

  • There was a quiet, cynical smile on his face as he sat there beating a tattoo on his leggings with a hickory twig.

  • Suddenly the old man beat a tattoo on his cranium and closed his eyes, apparently deep in thought.

  • Inside—no sound, except the Factor's deep breathing, and an irregular tattoo, produced by Denton's heels tapping upon the floor.

  • But it seemed no use knocking, and Wildney at last, in a fit of impatience, thumped a regular tattoo on the bedroom door.

  • Huge black grasshoppers played the jew's-harp, while the owl beat a tattoo on its own body, having no better drum.