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couple
kʌpəl ˈkʌpəl
Word forms: plural , 3rd person singular present tense couples, present participle coupling, past tense , past participle coupled
1 QUANT 两个;几个 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. 两个;几个
  • Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard. [+ of]

    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. [+ of]

    我想问题几天内就会解决。

  • ...a small working-class town in Mas-sachusetts, a couple of hundred miles from New York City. [+ of]

    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

Couple is also a determiner in spoken American English, and before 'more' and 'less'.(在美国口语中以及在 more less 前亦用作限定词)
  • ...a couple weeks before the election.

    选举前的几周

  • I think I can play maybe for a couple more years.

    我想也许我还能再打两年球。

Couple is also a pronoun.
  • I've got a couple that don't look too bad.

    我弄到两个,看上去还可以。

2 N-COUNT-COLL [with singular or plural verb] 夫妻;情人 A couple is two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship. 夫妻;情人
  • 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

  • ...an isolated spot popular with courting couples.

    很受热恋情侣欢迎的僻静之所

SYN husband and wife, pair, item
3 N-COUNT-COLL [with singular or plural verb] (在某种场合在一起或有某种关系的)一对人,两个人 A couple is two people that you see together on a particular occasion or that have some association. (在某种场合在一起或有某种关系的)一对人,两个人
  • ...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。

4 VERB [usually passive] 加上;结合 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. 加上;结合
  • ...a problem that is coupled with lower demand for the machines themselves. [be VERB-ed + with]

    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。

  • This, coupled with the fact that flying machines remained universally a subject for jeers and derision, made the brothers secretive. [VERB-ed]

    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。

5 VERB [usually passive] (把设备等)连接,结合 If one piece of equipment is coupled to another, it is joined to it so that the two pieces of equipment work together. (把设备等)连接,结合
  • Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox. [be VERB-ed + to]

    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. [be V-ed + together]

    多个系统在复杂的数组中连接起来。

coupling
  • The technique requires the coupling of a particle accelerator and a mass spectrometer.

    这种技术要求将粒子加速器和质谱仪连接起来。

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