couples
英 [ˈkʌplz]
美 [ˈkʌplz]
n. 两人; 两件事物; 几个人; 几件事物; (人)一对; (尤指)夫妻,情侣
v. (把车辆或设备等)连接,结合; 性交; 交配
couple的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
- QUANT 两个;几个
If you refer toa couple ofpeople or things, you mean two or approximately two of them, although the exact number is not important or you are not sure of it.- Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard...
我对面的街上有几名警官在站岗。 - I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.
我想问题几天内就会解决。 - ...a small working-class town in Mas-sachusetts, a couple of hundred miles from New York City.
马萨诸塞州的一个工人阶层居住的小镇,距纽约市几百英里 - Coupleis also a determiner in spoken American English, and before 'more' and 'less'.
(在美国口语中以及在 more 和 less 前亦用作限定词) - ...a couple weeks before the election...
选举前的几周 - I think I can play maybe for a couple more years.
我想也许我还能再打两年球。 - Coupleis also a pronoun.
- I've got a couple that don't look too bad.
我弄到两个,看上去还可以。
- Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard...
- N-COUNT-COLL 夫妻;情人
Acoupleis two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship.- The couple have no children.
这对夫妻没有孩子。 - ...after burglars ransacked an elderly couple's home.
窃贼洗劫了一对老夫妇的家之后 - ...an isolated spot popular with courting couples.
很受热恋情侣欢迎的僻静之所
- The couple have no children.
- N-COUNT-COLL (在某种场合在一起或有某种关系的)一对人,两个人
Acoupleis two people that you see together on a particular occasion or that have some association.- ...as the four couples began the opening dance...
4对舞伴开始跳开场舞的时候 - They were an odd couple.
他们是奇怪的一对。
- ...as the four couples began the opening dance...
- VERB 加上;结合
If you say that one thing produces a particular effect when itis coupled withanother, you mean that the two things combine to produce that effect.- ...a problem that is coupled with lower demand for the machines themselves...
这个问题外加上对机器本身需求量的下降 - Overuse of those drugs, coupled with poor diet, leads to physical degeneration...
过量使用那些药物再加上饮食缺乏营养,导致健康状况恶化。 - This, coupled with the fact that flying machines remained universally a subject for jeers and derision, made the brothers secretive.
这一点,加上飞行器仍是人们普遍嘲笑和讥讽的对象,使得兄弟俩只能暗地里行事。
- ...a problem that is coupled with lower demand for the machines themselves...
- VERB (把设备等)连接,结合
If one piece of equipmentis coupled toanother, it is joined to it so that the two pieces of equipment work together.- Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox...
它的发动机与一个半自动变速箱相连接。 - The various systems are coupled together in complex arrays.
多个系统在复杂的数组中连接起来。
- Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox...
- See also:coupling
双语例句
- About one in six couples has difficulty conceiving
大约1/6的夫妻有受孕困难。 - In another study, the researchers analyzed MHC gene samples of 48 couples.
在另一项研究中,研究人员对48对夫妇的MHC基因样本进行了分析。 - Other changes include more tolerant attitudes to unmarried couples having children.
其他变化包括对非婚夫妇生育更为宽容的态度。 - Cohabiting couples would regularise their unions, they said
他们说,同居情侣会让他们的结合合法化。 - The territory was too expensive for any one purchaser, so the two couples parcelled out a picnic lunch.
这地方什么都贵,因此,两对夫妇分享一顿野餐。 - I accept that the romance may have gone out of the marriage, but surely this is true of many couples
我同意婚姻里可能已经没有了浪漫这一说法,而且很多夫妻都的确如此。 - I developed a temporary allergy to the company of couples.
我一时间很反感和情侣们在一起。 - At the other tables couples were now in a mellow mood, chattering happily and drinking.
其他桌上的情侣们正一边饮酒一边畅谈,兴致很高。 - They are typical of couples who plan a family without reckoning on the small fortune it will cost
他们是那种典型的想要孩子但不考虑花销有多大的夫妻。 - Couples are waltzing round the wooden floor
人们双双对对在木地板上跳着华尔兹舞。