couple

英 [ˈkʌpl]

美 [ˈkʌpl]

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

复数：couples　过去式：coupled　过去分词：coupled　现在分词：coupling　第三人称单数：couples　

中考高考CET4考研TOEFLIELTS

Oxford 3000 / Collins.4 / BNC.727 / COCA.531

短语用例

couple sb/sth with sb/sth

• 把…与…连接起来
  to link one thing, situation, etc. to another
  1. I saw a couple of men get out.
     我看见有两个男人出去了。

习惯用语

n.

in two shakesin a couple of shakes
• 立刻；马上
  very soon

牛津词典

noun

• 两人；两件事物
  two people or things
  1. I saw a couple of men get out.
     我看见有两个男人出去了。
• 几个人；几件事物
  a small number of people or things
  1. a couple of minutes
     几分钟
  2. We went there a couple of years ago.
     我们几年前去过那里。
  3. I've seen her a couple of times before.
     我以前见过她几次。
  4. 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。
  5. There are a couple more files to read first.
     还有几份档案要先看一看。
  6. 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。
  7. The last couple of years have been difficult.
     最近的几年一直是困难重重。
• （人）一对；（尤指）夫妻，情侣
  two people who are seen together, especially if they are married or in a romantic or sexual relationship
  1. married couples
     几对夫妇
  2. a young/an elderly couple
     年轻 / 老年夫妇
  3. Several couples were on the dance floor.
     有几对情侣在跳舞。
  4. The couple was/were married in 1976.
     这对夫妇于1976年结婚。

verb

• （把车辆或设备等）连接，结合
  to join together two parts of sth, for example two vehicles or pieces of equipment
  1. The two train cars had been coupled together.
     两节火车车厢已经挂上钩了。
  2. 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。
• 性交；交配
  to have sex

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

英英释义

noun

• a pair who associate with one another
  1. the engaged couple
  2. an inseparable twosome
  Synonym:twosomeduoduet
• a pair of people who live together
  1. a married couple from Chicago
  Synonym:matesmatch
• (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
• two items of the same kind
  Synonym:pairtwosometwainbracespanyokecoupletdistichduoduetdyadduad
• a small indefinite number
  1. he's coming for a couple of days

verb

• bring two objects, ideas, or people together
  1. This fact is coupled to the other one
  2. Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?
  3. The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project
  Synonym:matchmatepairtwin
• link together
  1. can we couple these proposals?
  Synonym:couple oncouple up
• engage in sexual intercourse
  1. Birds mate in the Spring
  Synonym:copulatematepair
• form a pair or pairs
  1. The two old friends paired off
  Synonym:pairpair offpartner off

双语例句

• I'm still in the air force, though I'll be demobbed in a couple of months.
  我还在空军部队服役，不过几个月之后我就要复员了。
• He had lent the bungalow to the Conrads for a couple of weeks.
  他把那间平房借给康拉德一家住了两三个星期。
• Both my brothers have university degrees. I just scraped through a couple of A-levels
  我的两个兄弟都有大学学位。而我只是勉强通过了几门高级程度考试。
• The couple have no children.
  这对夫妻没有孩子。
• The happy couple and their respective parents took to the floor.
  这对幸福的新人和他们各自的父母在舞池中翩翩起舞。
• I spent a couple of days sight-seeing in Guilin.
  我在桂林盘桓了几天，观光了名胜。
• You won't find a couple more in the public gaze than Michael and Lizzie.
  没有比迈克尔和莉齐更受人瞩目的夫妇了。
• The couple had been living together for 16 years.
  这对情侣已经同居了16年。
• Owning a place of their own is a dream come true for the couple.
  这对夫妇拥有了自己的房子，终于梦想成真了。
• I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.
  我想问题几天内就会解决。