mate
n. (工人間的)夥伴,同事,老兄,老弟〔工人,水手間的親密稱呼〕; 配偶〔男女任何一方〕,動物之偶(尤指鳥類),(一對中的)一隻,配對物; [醫學](軍醫等的)助手; [航海](商船的)大副,駕駛員
vt.& vi. (使)成為配偶; (使)交配; (一對動物或鳥)交配; 交尾(~ with sth)
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...
他跟哥兒們出去喝酒了。
A mate of mine used to play soccer for Liverpool.
我的一個朋友在利物浦隊踢過球。
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.
別灰心,兄弟,事情沒那麼糟。
Someone's wife, husband, or sexual partner can be referred to as their mate .
He has found his ideal mate.
他找到了理想的伴侶。
...as women do become as powerful in the marketplace as their mates.
隨著女人在商界的確變得和男人一樣強大
An animal's mate is its sexual partner.
The males guard their mates zealously.
雄性動物死死地守護著他們的配偶。
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...
這樣可以使這對公雞和母雞正常交配,讓母雞不再呆在雞窩裡。
They want the males to mate with wild females...
他們希望這些雄性動物可以和野生的雌性動物交配。
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.
拖網漁船上的大副
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. the officer below the master on a commercial ship
2. a fellow member of a team;
3. the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner);
4. a person's partner in marriage
5. an exact duplicate;
6. South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
7. informal term for a friend of the same sex
8. South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
9. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
1. make love;
2. bring two objects, ideas, or people together;
3. place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game;
friend, mate, acquaintance, pal
這些名詞都有"朋友"之意。
fool's mate
走第二步棋時白方就被黑方將死的敗局
scholar's mate
走第四步棋時白方用後和王象把黑方將死的棋局
Where is the mate to this glove?
這副手套的另一隻在哪兒?
The first mate was studying to become a master.
大副正在學習準備當船長.
The mate is one rank below the captain.
大副是僅低於船長的頭銜.
The mate observed regretfully that he could not account for that young fellow's whims.
那位夥伴很遺憾地說他不能說出那年輕人產生怪念頭的原因.
It is often difficult to get animals to mate in captivity.
常常很難使被關的動物交配.