couples

英 [ˈkʌplz]

美 [ˈkʌplz]

n.  两人; 两件事物; 几个人; 几件事物; (人)一对; (尤指)夫妻，情侣
v.  (把车辆或设备等)连接，结合; 性交; 交配
couple的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• QUANT 两个;几个
  If you refer toa couple ofpeople or things, you mean two or approximately two of them, although the exact number is not important or you are not sure of it.
  1. 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。
  2. I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.
     我想问题几天内就会解决。
  3. ...a small working-class town in Mas-sachusetts, a couple of hundred miles from New York City.
     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
  4. Coupleis also a determiner in spoken American English, and before 'more' and 'less'.
     (在美国口语中以及在 more 和 less 前亦用作限定词)
  5. ...a couple weeks before the election...
     选举前的几周
  6. I think I can play maybe for a couple more years.
     我想也许我还能再打两年球。
  7. Coupleis also a pronoun.
     
  8. I've got a couple that don't look too bad.
     我弄到两个，看上去还可以。
• N-COUNT-COLL 夫妻;情人
  Acoupleis two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship.
  1. The couple have no children.
     这对夫妻没有孩子。
  2. ...after burglars ransacked an elderly couple's home.
     窃贼洗劫了一对老夫妇的家之后
  3. ...an isolated spot popular with courting couples.
     很受热恋情侣欢迎的僻静之所
• N-COUNT-COLL (在某种场合在一起或有某种关系的)一对人，两个人
  Acoupleis two people that you see together on a particular occasion or that have some association.
  1. ...as the four couples began the opening dance...
     4对舞伴开始跳开场舞的时候
  2. They were an odd couple.
     他们是奇怪的一对。
• VERB 加上;结合
  If you say that one thing produces a particular effect when itis coupled withanother, you mean that the two things combine to produce that effect.
  1. ...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
  2. 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。
  3. This, coupled with the fact that flying machines remained universally a subject for jeers and derision, made the brothers secretive.
     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。
• VERB (把设备等)连接，结合
  If one piece of equipmentis coupled toanother, it is joined to it so that the two pieces of equipment work together.
  1. 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。
  2. The various systems are coupled together in complex arrays.
     多个系统在复杂的数组中连接起来。
• See also:coupling

双语例句

• All my friends were either lovey-dovey couples or wild, single girls.
  我的朋友不是卿卿我我的情侣，就是狂野的单身女郎。
• the trend towards couples living together rather than marrying.
  倾向于同居而不是结婚的趋势
• Other changes include more tolerant attitudes to unmarried couples having children.
  其他变化包括对非婚夫妇生育更为宽容的态度。
• The report shows that fewer couples are getting hitched.
  报告显示，结婚的人数呈下降趋势。
• I accept that the romance may have gone out of the marriage, but surely this is true of many couples
  我同意婚姻里可能已经没有了浪漫这一说法，而且很多夫妻都的确如此。
• They are typical of couples who plan a family without reckoning on the small fortune it will cost
  他们是那种典型的想要孩子但不考虑花销有多大的夫妻。
• Their fellow travellers are a mix of honeymooners, single girls on the prowl and elderly couples
  他们的旅伴中有度蜜月的新人，有寻觅伴侣的单身女孩，也有老年夫妇。
• About one in six couples has difficulty conceiving
  大约1/6的夫妻有受孕困难。
• She's a daughter of one of the couples, so she's probably gone with them.
  她是其中一对夫妇的女儿，所以她可能跟他们一起走了。
• Evenings bring couples and singles for open air concert.
  夜晚引得双双对对和单身的男女去听露天音乐会。