couples是什么意思？

couples

英['kʌplz] 美['kʌplz]

• n. 一对( couple的名词复数 )，一双，一些，夫妻；

例句

• Because of the housing shortage, many couples had to double up in one tiny apartment. 由于住房紧张, 许多对夫妻只好挤在一栋公寓里。
• Couples may agree to divorce each other after a separation. 分居后,夫妇可能会同意离婚。
• Most surrogates are women, a few are men, and are married couples that practice surrogacy together. 大部分代理人是女性, 也有一些是男性, 并有已婚夫妇一起从事性代理工作.
• They selected 7 ton peddles with similar color in couples of ton. 他们从几十吨鹅卵石中精心挑选出7吨颜色、材质相似的卵石.
• More enterprising dancers, singly or in couples , frequently broke into brief improvisations. 更富于想象力的舞蹈者常突然独自或成对作短暂的即兴舞.
• Many do, but average the children of co - habiting couples do worse by nearly every measure. 很多人是这样, 但是平均看来,同居家庭的孩子无论从哪一方面衡量,表现都要差一些.
• Cohabiting couples would regularise their unions, they said. 他们说，同居情侣会让他们的结合合法化。
• There were several couples spooning at the riverside. 河边有好几对男女在谈情说爱.
• Couples are breaking up a four - thousand - year - old Peruvian vase shipped UPS. 夫妻感情的破裂,就象 四千年 的秘鲁古瓷花瓶被UPS快递后的结果,无法弥合.
• On a large boat is ideal for business banquets and dating couples. 得月舫是个非常适合商务宴请和情侣约会的地方.

英语四级真题

If you believe that you have found true romance, and your culture tells you that this is what a long-term relationship should be based on, there is less need to rely on social or family pressures to keep couples together, O'Sullivan argues.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
A majority of them are young couples.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households, Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes
出自-2012年6月阅读原文

英语六级真题

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
Design programs targeted at retired couples.
出自-2011年6月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• 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.
  例句
  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。 I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days. 我想问题几天内就会解决。
• N-COUNT-COLL
  夫妻;情人
  A couple is two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship.
  例句
  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
• N-COUNT-COLL
  (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.
  例句
  ...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。
• VERB
  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.
  例句
  ...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。
• VERB
  (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.
  例句
  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。

行业词典

• 体育： 双人赛；双人技巧；