couple

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英[ˈkʌpl]
美[ˈkʌpl]

基本释义

n.
两个; 夫妻; 一对儿; 几个
v.
加上; 结合

词性变化

实用例句

The couple was/were married in 1976.

这对夫妇于1976年结婚。

牛津词典

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

你还需要玻璃杯吗?我有几个可以借给你。

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

那地方离这里只有几个街区。

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The two train cars had been coupled together.

两节火车车厢已经挂上钩了。

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

动态视频系统使用的是与大功率计算机相连的只读光盘系统。

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

生产过剩加上销售下降使这家公司遭受巨大损失。

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Several couples were on the dance floor.

有几对情侣在跳舞。

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a young/an elderly couple

年轻 / 老年夫妇

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

我一会儿就到你那里去。我有几件事情得先处理一下。

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There are a couple more files to read first.

还有几份档案要先看一看。

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We can do it in the next couple of weeks.

我们可在今后几个星期里完成这件事。

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The last couple of years have been difficult.

最近的几年一直是困难重重。

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married couples

几对夫妇

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I've seen her a couple of times before.

我以前见过她几次。

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I saw a couple of men get out.

我看见有两个男人出去了。

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a couple of minutes

几分钟

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We went there a couple of years ago.

我们几年前去过那里。

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

我想问题几天内就会解决。

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

...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。

...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。

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。

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。

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.

《简明英汉词典》

真题例句

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

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

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第三套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)听力 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

To advise couples to think twice before having children

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月听力原文

Design programs targeted at retired couples.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

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

出自-2010年6月听力原文

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月听力原文

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

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

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

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 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月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)听力 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月六级真题(第二套)听力 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月六级真题(第一套)阅读 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.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2017年高考英语江苏卷 听力 原文

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年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

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

2017年高考英语江苏卷 听力 原文

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

2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

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

2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

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

2015年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

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."

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

I have a couple of pens though.

2016年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

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

2016年高考英语北京卷 单项选择 原文

I'm afraid there are a couple of problems.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 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年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读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.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 完形填空 原文

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.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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.

2015年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

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

2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

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

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

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年考研阅读原文

Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

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

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

英英释义

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"

同义词辨析

couple, pair

这两个名词均有"一对,一双"之意。

  • couple: 多指在一起或彼此有关系的两个人或两个同样的事物。
  • pair: 含义广泛,可指人或物。用于物时,指两个互属的事物,缺此或失彼都会失去使用价值,或指由相对称的两部分构成的一件东西。

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

这些动词均有"连接,结合,联合"之意。

  • join: 侧重把原来不相连接的物紧密地连接在一起,但仍可再分开。也指把分散的人或几个部分的人联合起来,或加入到某团体中去。
  • combine: 指两个或两个以上的人或物结合在一起。
  • unite: 指联合、团结、结合在一起,构成一个整体。
  • connect: 指两事物在某一点上相连接,但彼此又保持独立。
  • link: 指连环式的连接,或用接合物或其它方式连接,还可指一事物与另一事物的联系或关系。
  • attach: 指把局部连接在整体上,小的接在大的上面,活动的接在固定的上面。
  • couple: 专指连接两件东西,或把事物成对进行连接。
  • associate: 指人与人友好和平、平等地联合在一起;用于物时,指两事物因历史或其它原因,很自然被人们联系在一起,即产生联想。
  • relate: 指人与人有亲戚或婚烟关系;也指人或物之间尚存的实际或假想的联系。

同义词

vt.连接;结合

jointeampair

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