(尤指大型凶猛动物的)口部,嘴
the mouth of a person or animal, especially a large and frightening animal
The lion opened its jaws and roared. 狮子张开大嘴咆哮起来。
The dog approached, snapping its jaws.
We tried to pull the stick from the animal's jaws.
The cougar had its jaws clamped round the deer's leg.
They stared, horrified, at the jaws of a great white shark.
钳夹部分;钳口
something that opens and closes like the upper and lower parts of a mouth
His foot was caught in the jaws of the trap. 他的脚被夹在捕兽夹的钳口里。
They managed to save the fields from the jaws of the bulldozer.
We watched tons of black stone being fed into the jaws of the machine.
The wire ran through a small hole into the jaws of a peg.
Waste products are fed into the jaws of a giant grinding machine.
See also: jaw noun (BODY PART)