couple
n. 两个; 夫妻; 一对儿; 几个
v. 加上; 结合
If you refer to a couple of people 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 couple is 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
A couple is 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。
If you say that one thing produces a particular effect when it is coupled with another, 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。
If one piece of equipment is coupled to another, 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。
1. a small indefinite number;
2. a pair of people who live together;
3. a pair who associate with one another;
4. two items of the same kind
5. something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
1. bring two objects, ideas, or people together;
2. link together;
3. form a pair or pairs;
4. make love;
couple, pair
这两个名词均有"一对,一双"之意。
join, combine, unite, connect, link, attach, couple, associate, relate
这些动词均有"连接,结合,联合"之意。
Pamela is nobody's fool ; she'll master her new job in a couple of days.
帕梅拉精得很, 她会在一两天内胜任新的工作.
By wearing the ring on the third finger of the left hand, a married couple symbolically declares their eternal love for each other.
将婚戒戴在左手的第三只手指上, 意味着夫妻双方象征性地宣告他们的爱情天长地久,他们定能白头偕老.
In China today each couple is required to carry out a eugenic plan strictly.
在今天的中国要求每对夫妇都要严格执行优生计划.
If you would lend an ear for a couple of minutes you might learn something to your advantage.
要是你愿意认真听几分钟的话,你可能会学到一些对你有用的东西.
She jokingly replied, " I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel.
”她开玩笑地回答说: “ 我要在此遇到一个有钱的丈夫, 结婚, 生几个孩子, 然后退休,去旅游.