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汉语拼音：xiàng yá

象的门牙，略呈圆锥形，伸出口外。质地坚硬、洁白、细致，可制工艺品。现国际上已禁止象牙贸易。

1. 指象上腭的门牙，以质地细密而有光泽者为佳，多用于雕制饰物及工艺美术品。

   汉 王褒 《洞箫赋》：“带以象牙，掍其会合。”《后汉书·西南夷传·哀牢》：“ 永初 元年，徼外 僬侥种夷 陆类 等三千餘口举种内附，献象牙、水牛、封牛。” 唐 王勃 《＜四分律宗记＞序》：“故以该象牙之扇，穷贝叶之图，钻研刊削，五载而就。”

• 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。

• 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。

• Elephants wear the tusk down faster than they can grow it.

  象牙磨损的速度快于生长的速度。

• a ban on the ivory trade

  象牙贸易禁令

• academics living in ivory towers

  生活在象牙塔中的学者

• The elephants are poached for their tusks.

  为获取象牙而偷猎大象。

• The museum has a fine collection of medieval ivories.

  该博物馆收藏着一批精美的中世纪象牙制品.

• The panel had a veneer of gold and ivory.

  这木板上面镶饰了一层金和象牙.

• He sports an ivory - handled cane these days.

  这些天来,他一直在炫耀一只象牙柄手杖.

• My grandmother has some jewelry made of ivory.

  我祖母有一些象牙首饰.

• What exquisite [ delicate ] ivory carvings these are!

  这几件 象牙 雕刻做得真细!

• 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。

• 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？

• 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。

• The ivory gull often follows polar bears to feed on the remains of seal kills.

  象牙海鸥经常跟在北极熊的后面吃剩下的海豹尸体.