| 单词 | married couple |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarried couple married couple n. a husband and wife; also (occasionally) in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > married people > married couple couple1393 pairc1400 married couplea1625 happy couple1631 man and wife1749 Ozzie and Harriet1974 a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize v. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 122/2 A poore married couple Desire an offering sir. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. viii. 147 Admiral and Mrs. Croft..among the married couples . View more context for this quotation 1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. ii. vi. 209 We shall be confronted with married couples who..demand that we should provide for them lodgings. 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 35 at Twins Two shearers who travel and work together, neither being prepared to ‘take a pen’ unless his mate gets one too. These inseparable mates are sometimes referred to as a ‘married couple’. 1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life i. vii. 87 My parents, though I believe they got along better than ninety-nine percent of the married couples in Zephyr, did have their go-rounds. < as lemmas |
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