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.
  1. 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。
  2. I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.
     我想问题几天内就会解决。
  3. ...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
  4. 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)
  5. ...a couple weeks before the election...
     选举前的几周
  6. I think I can play maybe for a couple more years.
     我想也许我还能再打两年球。
  7. Coupleis also a pronoun.
     
  8. I've got a couple that don't look too bad.
     我弄到两个，看上去还可以。
• N-COUNT-COLL 夫妻;情人
  Acoupleis two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship.
  1. The couple have no children.
     这对夫妻没有孩子。
  2. ...after burglars ransacked an elderly couple's home.
     窃贼洗劫了一对老夫妇的家之后
  3. ...an isolated spot popular with courting couples.
     很受热恋情侣欢迎的僻静之所
• 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.
  1. ...as the four couples began the opening dance...
     4对舞伴开始跳开场舞的时候
  2. They were an odd couple.
     他们是奇怪的一对。
• 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.
  1. ...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
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. The various systems are coupled together in complex arrays.
     多个系统在复杂的数组中连接起来。
• See also:coupling

双语例句

• Today, we no longer gasp when we hear a teenage girl is pregnant or whisper about unmarried couples who live together
  今天，我们听到未成年少女怀孕时不会再感到惊讶，也不会再去私下谈论谁谁未婚同居。
• 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。
• Older couples, with grownup children of their own.
  几对上了年纪的夫妇和他们已长大成人的子女。
• I and the cat, we are couples of no names.
  我和猫咪一样，我们都没有名字。
• There was an awkward moment as couples decided whether to stand next to their partners.
  大家在决定是否要站到自己配偶身旁时，这一刻令人尴尬。
• 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。
• 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。
• Thousands of childless couples are to be given new hope by the government.
  政府将为数千对无子女的夫妇带来新的希望。
• The treatment of infertility is largely dependent on the ability of couples to pay.
  对不孕不育的治疗很大程度上视乎夫妇的经济能力。
• Just 26 per cent of households are married couples with dependent children.
  只有26%的家庭是有孩子要扶养的已婚夫妇。