mates
n. [英]伙伴( mate的名词复数 ); 同伴; (非正式)配偶; (熟练工人的)助手
You can refer to someone's friends as their mates, especially when you are talking about a man and his male friends.
He's off drinking with his mates...
他跟哥儿们出去喝酒了。
A mate of mine used to play soccer for Liverpool.
我的一个朋友在利物浦队踢过球。
Some men use mate as a way of addressing other men when they are talking to them.
Come on mate, things aren't that bad.
别灰心,兄弟,事情没那么糟。
Someone's wife, husband, or sexual partner can be referred to as their mate .
He has found his ideal mate.
他找到了理想的伴侣。
...as women do become as powerful in the marketplace as their mates.
随着女人在商界的确变得和男人一样强大
An animal's mate is its sexual partner.
The males guard their mates zealously.
雄性动物死死地守护着他们的配偶。
When animals mate, a male and a female have sex in order to produce young.
This allows the pair to mate properly and stops the hen staying in the nest-box...
这样可以使这对公鸡和母鸡正常交配,让母鸡不再呆在鸡窝里。
They want the males to mate with wild females...
他们希望这些雄性动物可以和野生的雌性动物交配。
On a commercial ship, the mate or the first mate is the most important officer except for the captain. Officers of lower rank are also called mates .
...the mate of a fishing trawler.
拖网渔船上的大副
In the United States Navy, a mate is a petty officer who has a particular set of skills and who assists a warrant officer.
In chess, mate is the same as checkmate .
1. a pair of people who live together;
I got quite a lot of ribbing from my team-mates.
队友们经常开我的玩笑。
They were persuaded onstage for a laugh by their mates.
他们被同伴们说服,上台一乐。
No blabbing to your mates!
不要告诉你的同伴!
We played pool together and were good mates.
我们一起打过台球,是好哥们儿。
Steve and I became soul mates, near-constant companions.
我和史蒂夫成了知己,几乎时刻相伴。