| 单词 | twain |
| 释义 | twain (once / 720 pages) n If you want an old-fashioned way to talk about two things, use the noun twain. You might lament that your pair of dogs was divided in twain when you had to give one of them away. The word twain is hardly ever used these days, so you're most likely to see it in an old book of poetry, or in the phrase "never the twain shall meet." This saying means that two people — or groups of people — are so unlike each other that they'll never manage to see things the same way. The origin of twain is the Old English word for two, twegen. WORD FAMILYtwain: twains USAGE EXAMPLESPolice say it looks like her death near Twain Avenue and Maryland Parkway was an accident, though few additional details were immediately released. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) In 1906, Mark Twain, dressed in his signature white suit, addressed the Senate patents committee as he argued for the extension of copyright protection. Salon(Dec 31, 2016) Mark Twain famously said that God looks after fools, drunks and the United States of America. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) n two items of the same kind Syn|Hypo|Hyper brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twosome, yoke doubleton (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player 2, II, deuce, two the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number |
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