| 单词 | couple |
| 释义 | couple (kʌpəl ) Word forms: couples , coupling , coupled 1. quantifier B1 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. Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard. [+ of] I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days. [+ of] ...a small town a couple of hundred miles from New York City. [+ of] Couple is also a determiner in spoken American English, and before 'more' and 'less'. ...a couple weeks before the election. I think I can play maybe for a couple more years. Couple is also a pronoun. I've got a couple that don't look too bad. 2. countable noun [with singular or plural verb] B1+ A couple is two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship. The couple have no children. ...after burglars ransacked an elderly couple's home. ...an isolated spot popular with courting couples. Synonyms: husband and wife, pair, item 3. countable noun [with singular or plural verb] B1+ A couple is two people that you see together on a particular occasion or that have some association. ...as the four couples began the opening dance. They were an odd couple. 4. verb [usually passive] 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. ...a problem that is coupled with lower demand for the machines themselves. [be VERB-ed + with] Over-use of those drugs, coupled with poor diet, leads to physical degeneration. [VERB-ed] ...memories or past failures, coupled with a feeling of guilt. [VERB-ed] 5. verb [usually passive] If one piece of equipment is coupled to another, it is joined to it so that the two pieces of equipment work together. Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox. [be VERB-ed + to] The various systems are coupled together in complex arrays. [be V-ed + together] coupling singular noun [usually the NOUN of noun] The technique requires the coupling of a particle accelerator and a mass spectrometer. 6. See also coupling Collocations: childless couple There are so many childless couples who have been waiting years to adopt a baby, a toddler or a child. The Sun (2012) The finding could lead to new screening tests and treatment for childless couples. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The couple are childless - but instead they have a little terrier called Rose. The Sun (2006) After a short courtship, the couple married. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The couple married in 1964 and a life of blissful domesticity beckoned. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The couple married in a lavish ceremony in May. Times, Sunday Times (2014) She survived the smallpox, and the couple married later that year, after which there were no more billets-doux. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Their families were reportedly unenthusiastic when the couple married when she was just 18. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The couple split in one of the most acrimonious divorces in the business world in recent years. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The couple wed on the third day in a 15- minute service on the beach and followed it with a sumptuous outdoor meal. The Sun (2017) And he proudly watched as the couple wed last year. The Sun (2006) His promises came exactly one month after the couple wed. The Sun (2009) The couple wed in 2011 but split last year. The Sun (2013) The couple wed last May. The Sun (2014) They may have won the big silver glitter ball in 2010, but this cute couple also won each other's hearts. The Sun They'd make a cute couple with their matching sticky-up hair - but would we be able to understand what either was on about? The Sun They are a really cute couple. The Sun I reckon they'd make a really cute couple. The Sun They'd make such a cute couple! Times, Sunday Times A divorced couple are reunited at their son's college graduation, and begin a clandestine affair. The Sun (2011) The only others at the afternoon showing were an elderly couple. The Sun (2014) The story is told of an elderly couple who lived together in a nursing home. Christianity Today (2000) Now the elderly couple regularly accompany their outgoing daughter to parties and premieres. The Sun (2010) Is the engaged couple legally capable of marrying? Christianity Today (2000) Then wait for all the other tourists to arrive and have your first picture taken as an engaged couple. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Yes, we may have more to think about than a straight engaged couple, but we also have more freedom. Times, Sunday Times (2010) She wanted to be cool and calm, and as happy for the engaged couple as she could: it was bad karma to be anything else. JUST BETWEEN US (2002) He has fought tirelessly for gay couples to be legally recognised as spouses. The Sun (2014) Should we deny this support to gay couples? Times, Sunday Times (2012) They have adopted new wedding rites that can be used by straight or gay couples. Christianity Today (2011) They were the country's most glamorous couple, said some, although the marriage was dissolved after five years. Times,Sunday Times This three-part comedy series follows a newly unemployed glamorous couple. The Sun The glamorous couple were an item for five years until she apparently tired of his partying. The Sun They were a distinctly glamorous couple. Times, Sunday Times This glamorous couple, who had caused much excitement in the gossip columns when they met, divorced soon after he was born. Times, Sunday Times I think they make a very handsome couple. The Sun They made a handsome couple. Christianity Today Our narrator rides every day on the same train line, and twice a day envies her 'favourite trackside house' where that handsome couple live. Times, Sunday Times I just do not know how to get back to the loving couple we used to be. The Sun The loving couple had planned to spend two weeks visiting each other's excited relatives. The Sun There was more than one loving couple on display at the royal wedding. Times, Sunday Times Reviving the best hopes you had for a relationship proves you can be a very loving couple. The Sun Inside, a photo of a loving couple stands on the mantelpiece. The Sun A married couple can make their home more tax-efficient by setting up a discretionary trust. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Carmen and Galupi adjusted comfortably to sharing their living space, like an old married couple. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES (2001) Meanwhile, there is a nasty case to solve involving the double suicide of a married couple who both worked at a lookalike agency. The Sun (2015) The married couple got him a place in another rehab house a mile away. The Sun (2016) The secret is perhaps one that will be familiar to many a married couple. Times, Sunday Times (2011) There's plenty of space for a big family, but a bit too much for one middle-aged couple and a lurcher. Times, Sunday Times The identity of the middle-aged couple will be revealed at lunchtime. The Sun We giggled at the middle-aged couple in front of us who were renting mountain bikes. The Sun It's touching, really, the romantic effect that ancient ruins can have on a middle-aged couple. Times, Sunday Times It's the sort of teasing middle-aged couple gambit that, in retrospect, would probably have been best left unasked. Times, Sunday Times I'm a landlord and have had a very reliable, middle-class couple living in my property for the past five years. Times, Sunday Times The drama tells of the marital crisis of a childless middle-class couple on the verge of their 45th wedding anniversary. Times, Sunday Times A middle-class couple adopted him when he was 11 months old, but his troubles continued. Times, Sunday Times A middle-class couple, each looked strained and avoided eye contact. Times, Sunday Times A middle-class couple sit in silence in their broken-down car on a country lane, waiting to be rescued. Times, Sunday Times Every other newlywed couple in the district had their wedding-night parties there and the sound of the bouzoukis carried across the water. Times, Sunday Times Its denizens include a moaning charwoman, a young newlywed couple and a drunk trade unionist. Times, Sunday Times The newlywed couple stepped out in front of the watching guests. Times, Sunday Times A newlywed couple got back from their honeymoon to find that their house sitter had sold their belongings. Times, Sunday Times When our helicopter touched down on the mainland, we caught sight of a newlywed couple waiting to fly out. Times, Sunday Times Bound by mutual distrust and annoyance, the odd couple pairing can do little but bicker. Christianity Today (2000) A fondness for laddish banter bonds the odd couple. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Bickering and bating one another, they are a co-dependent, weirdly domesticated odd couple. Times, Sunday Times (2008) From the very start, our women's lightweight double sculls pairing had seemed something of an odd couple. Times, Sunday Times (2012) In another sign that he takes his role immersion seriously, the two have become a real-life couple. Times, Sunday Times So could marriage be back on the cards for soap's most famous real-life couple? The Sun But for the real-life couple, fate took a more down-to-earth hand when the fireplace was removed for renovations. Times, Sunday Times That they were not can probably be ascribed not just to the fact that they were a real-life couple, which was titillating, but that both were highly experienced journalists. Times, Sunday Times It must be nightmarishly difficult for real-life couples, a really harrowing situation to be in. The Sun No sooner had the royal couple unpacked their bags than they were sent packing. Times, Sunday Times (2018) The royal couple seem to have morphed into them. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The royal couple are also said to be planning to play some of their favourite music. The Sun (2013) The image they used of the royal couple was the first colour photograph in a national broadsheet. Times, Sunday Times (2018) For a similar package, the average wedding couple forks out around 12,000. The Sun Some are still set up in this manner and require the wedding couple to use their travel agency to book their honeymoon. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They also used the money to send the wedding couple on a real honeymoon. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Gifts for the wedding couple are optional, although most guests attempt to give at least a token gift of their best wishes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The wedding couple then stood in front of the archbishop, who told them about the importance of supporting each other in a marriage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A young couple, absorbed in their guidebook, brushed against him in a gentle collision. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN (1991) No longer can the erstwhile carefree young couple arrange outings on the spur of the moment. Growing Through Loss and Grief (1994) A lady handed me back my fourth but the fifth was pocketed by a fresh-faced young couple. The Sun (2008) They were a young couple who wanted a sea view and were rather fussy. The Sun (2015) The young couple began their married life in a small house that was fixed up for them in a corner of the grounds. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born (1995) Translations: Chinese: 一对夫妇, 两个, 与…结合 Japanese: カップル, 二つ/二人くらい, 結びつける |
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