couple

音标发音

• 英式音标 ['kʌp(ə)l]
• 美式音标 [ˈkʌp.əl]
• 国际音标 ['kʌpl]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 对；夫妇；数个
• vi. 结合；成婚
• vt. 结合；连接；连合
• n. (Couple)人名；(法)库普勒

词源解说

• 13世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的cours；最初源自拉丁语的bond，意为对，双，结合。

同根派生

• n性质的同根词

  coupling：[电]耦合；结合，联结。

  coupler：[电子]耦合器；联结器。

• v性质的同根词

  coupling：连接（couple的ing形式）。

• couple相关词

用法辨析

n. (名词)

• couple的基本意思是“一对,一双”,指在一起或互有关系的两个人或物,但并不一定是同样的,其关系可分可合,是可数名词,常与of连用。
• couple作“夫妻”解是可数名词,其谓语动词可用单数,也可用复数形式。
• couple在非正式语体中还可作“一些,几个”解,用作单数名词,常与of连用。接复数名词作主语时,谓语动词侧重整体用单数形式,侧重个体用复数形式。

v. (动词)

• couple用作名词时意思是“一对”,转化成动词则主要表示“连接,结合”,指人为地把两个有关的人或东西连接在一起。
• couple用作及物动词时接名词或代词作宾语,可用于被动结构。couple偶尔也可用作不及物动词,宾语后面可接介词with或to,表示“结合在一起”。

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英汉例句

用作名词 (n.)

• He presented us with a couple of jade lions.
  他送给我们一对玉狮子。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

• Two pairs of lovers coupled in wedlock in our company last week.
  上周我们公司两对情人结为伉俪。

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

• The brake man coupled two freight cars.
  制动员把两节货车连接到一起。

其他: v -ed as Adverb.

• The strike, coupled with the flood, was expected to reduce supplies of food drastically.
  罢工加洪水,预计会大量减少食品供应。

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词组短语

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• bring a couple together 破镜重圆,使夫妻和好
• divide a couple 拆散一对夫妻
• form a couple 结成一对(夫妻),形成一双
• have a couple of 有一对…
• join a couple 结成一对夫妻

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• (SOME) two or a few things that are similar or the same, or two or a few people who are in some way connected
• (TWO PEOPLE) two people who are married or in a romantic or sexual relationship, or two people who are together for a particular purpose
• (JOIN) to join or combine
• (HAVE SEX) When two people or two animals couple, they have sex.

柯林斯英英字典

• 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.
• Couple is also a determiner in spoken American English, and is often used before "more" and "less."
• Couple is also a pronoun.
• A couple is two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship.
• A couple is two people that you see together on a particular occasion or that have some association.
• 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.

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专业释义

电子、通信与自动控制技术

• 耦合

  Wedged shaped fiber (WSF) can couple optical energy into PLC chip high-efficiently.
  楔形光纤可以实现与PLC芯片的高效耦合连接。

• 对

  AC impedance analyses show that toluene-p-sulfonic acid may catalyze V3+/V2+ couple electrode.
  交流阻抗分析表明对甲苯磺酸对V3+/V2+电对有催化作用。

  计算机科学技术

• 耦合

  It also puts forward a method of object-oriented to couple concrete application in SIP stack.
  针对具体应用与SIP协议间耦合问题，给出了一个面向对象的设计和实现方案。

  物理学

• 力偶

化学

• 偶，偶联
• 偶联

数学

• 力偶

哲学

• 夫妇

动力与电气工程

• 热电偶
• 热偶

天文学

• 双星

水利工程

• 力偶

机械工程

• 力偶

生物学

• 偶联;双
• 对;交配;力偶
• 电偶