couple

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基本釋義

n.
兩個; 夫妻; 一對兒; 幾個
v.
加上; 結(jié)合

詞性變化

實用例句

The couple was/were married in 1976.

這對夫婦于1976年結(jié)婚。

牛津詞典

Do you need any more glasses? I've got a couple I can lend you.

你還需要玻璃杯嗎?我有幾個可以借給你。

牛津詞典

(North Amercian English)It's only a couple blocks away.

那地方離這里只有幾個街區(qū)。

牛津詞典

The two train cars had been coupled together.

兩節(jié)火車車廂已經(jīng)掛上鉤了。

牛津詞典

CDTV uses a CD-ROM system that is coupled to a powerful computer.

動態(tài)視頻系統(tǒng)使用的是與大功率計算機相連的只讀光盤系統(tǒng)。

牛津詞典

Overproduction, coupled with falling sales, has led to huge losses for the company.

生產(chǎn)過剩加上銷售下降使這家公司遭受巨大損失。

牛津詞典

Several couples were on the dance floor.

有幾對情侶在跳舞。

牛津詞典

a young/an elderly couple

年輕 / 老年夫婦

牛津詞典

I'll be with you in a minute. There are a couple of things I have to do first.

我一會兒就到你那里去。我有幾件事情得先處理一下。

牛津詞典

There are a couple more files to read first.

還有幾份檔案要先看一看。

牛津詞典

We can do it in the next couple of weeks.

我們可在今后幾個星期里完成這件事。

牛津詞典

The last couple of years have been difficult.

最近的幾年一直是困難重重。

牛津詞典

married couples

幾對夫婦

牛津詞典

I've seen her a couple of times before.

我以前見過她幾次。

牛津詞典

I saw a couple of men get out.

我看見有兩個男人出去了。

牛津詞典

a couple of minutes

幾分鐘

牛津詞典

We went there a couple of years ago.

我們幾年前去過那里。

牛津詞典

I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.

我想問題幾天內(nèi)就會解決。

The couple have no children.

這對夫妻沒有孩子。

...after burglars ransacked an elderly couple's home.

竊賊洗劫了一對老夫婦的家之后

...as the four couples began the opening dance...

4對舞伴開始跳開場舞的時候

They were an odd couple.

他們是奇怪的一對。

...a problem that is coupled with lower demand for the machines themselves...

這個問題外加上對機器本身需求量的下降

Overuse of those drugs, coupled with poor diet, leads to physical degeneration...

過量使用那些藥物再加上飲食缺乏營養(yǎng),導致健康狀況惡化。

Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox...

它的發(fā)動機與一個半自動變速箱相連接。

The various systems are coupled together in complex arrays.

多個系統(tǒng)在復雜的數(shù)組中連接起來。

Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard...

我對面的街上有幾名警官在站崗。

Pamela is nobody's fool ; she'll master her new job in a couple of days.

帕梅拉精得很, 她會在一兩天內(nèi)勝任新的工作.

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真題例句

A decorated egg with a bird on it, given to a young married couple, is a wish for children.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

A couple of recent papers have finally opened a window on these people's extraordinary minds.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

A wonderful bond formed between the two, and within a couple of weeks, the stranger named White helped raise $190,000 on the website to support the Memphis teenager and his disabled mother.

2017年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

He noticed a couple of days after school, that a group of kids would get together to play chess.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years.

2019年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

I didn't feel any improvement in my condition in the first couple of days, but after a few more regular visits to the doctor, my cough started to lessen.

2018年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

In Shanghai, a young couple at a marriage registration office told the paper that they decided to register their marriage as soon as possible to take advantage of the existing policy because an extra holiday was a big deal for them.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

Popping food into the microwave for a couple of minutes may seem utterly harmless, but Europe's stock of these quick-cooking ovens emit as much carbon as nearly 7 million cars, a new study has found.

2019年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

There's rising work demand coupled with the insecurity of mergers, takeovers, downsizing and other factors, Moen said.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

Many admissions officers say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each application, including the essay.

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

Similarly, some couples don't have children because they don't want to sacrifice their own lifestyles to the lime and expense of a family.

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

To advise couples to think twice before having children

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

Late-stage developing nations that are currently industrialising rapidly, for example China, which will experience declining rates of population growth, coupled with increasing affluence (富裕)and age profile.

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

This is then coupled to a school's picture of what a diverse class should look like, with the result that passport, ethnic origin and sex can all become influencing factors.

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

Sylvia and Paul Custerson, a retired couple from Cambridge, England, recently took a 16-day vacation to Namibia, where they went on bird-watching excursions.

出自-2011年6月聽力原文

Design programs targeted at retired couples.

出自-2011年6月聽力原文

A couple of them had listened to a similar speech before.

出自-2010年6月聽力原文

The Language School wants me to do a bit of exam preparation, but also quite a lot of work in companies and factories, and a couple of children's classes

出自-2010年6月聽力原文

I also do a couple of ad-hoc jobs which are much shorter projects.

2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

She says her findings should be available in a couple of months.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

since 2010, the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed, with more than 80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.

2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

So I've just got to do my best, and take a couple of seconds to look through the first few lines before I launch into something.

2015年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

That is, the new offerings companies are pushing out the door every six months or so are me-too products or ones with just a couple of new features.

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

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Boy, news travels fast around here! I only got the orders a couple of hours ago.

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But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was committed to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 完形填空 原文

But I hope to move the family out there in a couple of months' time.

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But more importantly, we made a commitment to grow together as a couple.

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Eventually, the couple found that their bodies turned for the better, with re-found strong muscles that they.

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He bought a smartphone a couple of months ago and he took it on our recent ski vacation to Colorado.

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He told people at a conference, "there have been a couple of studies suggesting they are increasing their song output at night and during the day they are still singing."

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I have a couple of pens though.

2016年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文

I live next door to a couple whose children often make a lot of noise.

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I'm afraid there are a couple of problems.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(11月) 聽力 原文

It appeared on some of the first postcards, starred in some of the earliest silent movies, and was the subject of a couple of the earliest photos, dating all the way back to the 1800s.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

It was a popular activity for couples to leisurely walk through town to view the temporary works of chilly art.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

On march 19, Dennis got a group text informing him that a couple he didn't know were at the hospital, waiting for the arrival of a baby.

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On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.

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Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and happiness of the marriage within that home.

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While too many couples grow apart, we were growing together.

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According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?.

出自-2013年考研閱讀原文

Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives.

出自-2016年考研閱讀原文

A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter, who was 9 years old at the time, got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas.

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In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertises assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads?

2013年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation: two days, not two seconds.

2013年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

When work started again on Monday, output duly rose compared with the previous Saturday and continued to rise for the next couple of days.

2010年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. a small indefinite number;

    "he's coming for a couple of days"

  • 2. a pair of people who live together;

    "a married couple from Chicago"

  • 3. a pair who associate with one another;

    "the engaged couple"

    "an inseparable twosome"

  • 4. two items of the same kind

  • 5. something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines

Verb
  • 1. bring two objects, ideas, or people together;

    "This fact is coupled to the other one"

    "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"

    "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"

  • 2. link together;

    "can we couple these proposals?"

  • 3. form a pair or pairs;

    "The two old friends paired off"

  • 4. make love;

    "Birds mate in the Spring"

同義詞辨析

couple, pair

這兩個名詞均有"一對,一雙"之意。

  • couple: 多指在一起或彼此有關系的兩個人或兩個同樣的事物。
  • pair: 含義廣泛,可指人或物。用于物時,指兩個互屬的事物,缺此或失彼都會失去使用價值,或指由相對稱的兩部分構(gòu)成的一件東西。

join, combine, unite, connect, link, attach, couple, associate, relate

這些動詞均有"連接,結(jié)合,聯(lián)合"之意。

  • join: 側(cè)重把原來不相連接的物緊密地連接在一起,但仍可再分開。也指把分散的人或幾個部分的人聯(lián)合起來,或加入到某團體中去。
  • combine: 指兩個或兩個以上的人或物結(jié)合在一起。
  • unite: 指聯(lián)合、團結(jié)、結(jié)合在一起,構(gòu)成一個整體。
  • connect: 指兩事物在某一點上相連接,但彼此又保持獨立。
  • link: 指連環(huán)式的連接,或用接合物或其它方式連接,還可指一事物與另一事物的聯(lián)系或關系。
  • attach: 指把局部連接在整體上,小的接在大的上面,活動的接在固定的上面。
  • couple: 專指連接兩件東西,或把事物成對進行連接。
  • associate: 指人與人友好和平、平等地聯(lián)合在一起;用于物時,指兩事物因歷史或其它原因,很自然被人們聯(lián)系在一起,即產(chǎn)生聯(lián)想。
  • relate: 指人與人有親戚或婚煙關系;也指人或物之間尚存的實際或假想的聯(lián)系。

同義詞

vt.連接;結(jié)合

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