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couple
时间: 2024-04-05 11:59:14
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英 [ˈkʌpl]

n.夫妻;夫妇;情侣;一对搭档;一对舞伴;(由皮带连接的)双联颈圈;(用双联颈圈拴在一起的)双套猎犬;一对(猎犬计数单位);力偶;电偶;电极对;连接物;对椽;

vt.使结合;加上;把…联系起来;连接;把…连起来;把…连接到;同时做;交替做;把…拴在一起;将…耦合;

vi.性交;交媾

双语例句
  • It's only a couple blocks away.

    那地方离这里只有几个街区。

    《牛津词典》
  • The couple have no children.

    这对夫妇没有孩子。

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  • They were an odd-looking couple.

    这对夫妇长相奇特。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He dashed off a couple of novels.

    他匆匆地完成了几本小说。

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  • The couple met at a party.

    这对夫妇相识于一个派对。

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  • We went there a couple of years ago.

    我们几年前去过那里。

    《牛津词典》
  • She sold me a couple of live lobsters.

    她卖给了我几只活龙虾。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The two of them made a handsome couple.

    这对夫妻男俊女靓。

    《牛津词典》
  • I've seen her a couple of times before.

    我以前见过她几次。

    《牛津词典》
  • 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。

    《牛津词典》
  • There's a couple of dresses to be pressed.

    有几条连衣裙要熨。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • I've got a couple that don't look too bad.

    我有几个,看上去还不错。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • They were just like any other young couple.

    他们那时就和其他任何年轻夫妇一样。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The couple share a love of gourmet cooking.

    这对夫妇都有烹饪美食的爱好。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • There was an elderly couple on the terrace.

    露台上有一对上年纪的老人。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The couple are Hollywood's hottest property.

    这对搭档是好莱坞最走红的人物。

    《牛津词典》
  • The couple trudged up the dark mountainside.

    这对夫妇沿着黑暗的山坡向上跋涉。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • There are a couple more files to read first.

    还有几份档案要先看一看。

    《牛津词典》
  • Outwardly, the couple seemed perfectly happy.

    表面上看,这对夫妇似乎幸福美满。

    《牛津词典》
  • The couple might as well have been strangers.

    这对夫妇简直就像是陌路人。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The couple moved outside her field of vision.

    这对夫妇离开了她的视野。

    《牛津词典》
  • The couple quickly became a fixture in society.

    这对夫妇很快就成为上流社会的常客。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The couple spent thousands renovating the house.

    这对夫妻花了几千元来整修房子。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • We soon became friendly with the couple next door.

    我们很快就和隔壁的夫妇友好相处了。

    《牛津词典》
  • The couple had been dating for almost three years.

    这对情侣谈恋爱差不多三年了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • A couple of messages had mysteriously disappeared.

    几条信息已经神秘地消失了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • They exchanged banalities for a couple of minutes.

    他们彼此客套了几分钟。

    《牛津词典》
  • They were an extremely happy couple, ideally suited.

    他们是极其幸福、天造地设的一对。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The company has bankrolled a couple of local movies.

    这家公司已经为几部地方电影提供了资金。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The idea of being in a couple is certainly oversold.

    配成一对的想法确实被过分吹嘘了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
短语搭配
  • a couple of

    三两个…;一对…

  • young couple

    青年夫妇

  • a couple of days

    一两天

  • married couple

    新婚夫妻

  • couple with

    与…相结合,伴随

  • a couple of times

    好几次;若干次

近义词
n. 对;夫妇;数个
vi. 结合;成婚
vt. 结合;连接;连合
反义词
同义词辨析

couple, pair

这两个名词均有\一对,一双\之意。

  • couple : 多指在一起或彼此有关系的两个人或两个同样的事物。

  • pair : 含义广泛,可指人或物。用于物时,指两个互属的事物,缺此或失彼都会失去使用价值,或指由相对称的两部分构成的一件东西。

join, combine, unite, connect, link, attach, couple, associate, relate

这些动词均有\连接,结合,联合\之意。

  • join : 侧重把原来不相连接的物紧密地连接在一起,但仍可再分开。也指把分散的人或几个部分的人联合起来,或加入到某团体中去。

  • combine : 指两个或两个以上的人或物结合在一起。

  • unite : 指联合、团结、结合在一起,构成一个整体。

  • connect : 指两事物在某一点上相连接,但彼此又保持独立。

  • link : 指连环式的连接,或用接合物或其它方式连接,还可指一事物与另一事物的联系或关系。

  • attach : 指把局部连接在整体上,小的接在大的上面,活动的接在固定的上面。

  • couple : 专指连接两件东西,或把事物成对进行连接。

  • associate : 指人与人友好和平、平等地联合在一起;用于物时,指两事物因历史或其它原因,很自然被人们联系在一起,即产生联想。

  • relate : 指人与人有亲戚或婚烟关系;也指人或物之间尚存的实际或假想的联系。

考纲分布

6年出现 79

重要程度
  • 62%

    n 夫妻; 情侣

  • 38%

    n 一对; 几个

考纲释义
  • n. 夫妻; 情侣

    英文释义:

    two people who are married or engaged

    真题例句:

    • The couple followed the GPS directions.

      这对夫妇按照全球定位系统的指示行事。

      [2020年 苏州市卷 单项选择]
    • The couple planted more trees to get more money.

      这对夫妇种了更多的树来赚更多的钱。

      [2018年 吉林省卷 单项选择]
    • One day, a couple came to the temple.

      一天,一对夫妇来到寺庙。

      [2018年 衡阳市卷 阅读理解]
  • n. 一对; 几个

    英文释义:

    an indefinite small number

    真题例句:

    • As he was working, a couple of boys stopped by to watch.

      当他工作时,几个男孩停下来观看。

      [2020年 山西省卷 阅读理解]
    • In the next couple of hours,  Angela and Tom sold flags quickly and bravely.

      在接下来的几个小时里,安吉拉和汤姆迅速而勇敢地卖掉了旗帜。

      [2019年 天津市卷 阅读理解]
    • A couple of weeks ago, I went to buy four big suitcases for travel.

      几周前,为了旅行我去买了四个大手提箱。

      [2018年 安徽省卷 阅读理解]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • couple单独用时可以表示“夫妇”,但是a couple of不是指一对夫妇,而是指“一些, 几个”,a couple of 后面加可数名词复数,相当于a few。示例:A couple of weeks later my mother went into hospital.几周后我母亲住进了医院。

考纲分布

12年出现 12

重要程度
  • 75%

    n 一对; 几个

  • 17%

    n 夫妻; 情侣

  • 8%

    v 连接; 联系

考纲释义
  • n. 一对; 几个

    英文释义:

    an indefinite small number

    真题例句:

    • Within a couple of years, I'd given it up.

      几年之内,我就放弃了。

      [2021年 全国甲卷 阅读理解]
    • As someone noted in this paper a couple of ago, they eat great food and never gain weight.

      正如几天前有人在这篇文章中指出的那样,他们吃的食物很好,而且从不增重。

      [2021年 新高考Ⅰ卷 七选五]
    • I only got the orders a couple of hours ago.

      我几个小时前才接到订单。

      [2017年 全国卷1 听力]
  • n. 夫妻; 情侣

    英文释义:

    two people who are married or engaged

    真题例句:

    • A couple he didn't know were at the hospital, waiting for the arrival of a baby.

      有一对他不认识的夫妇正在医院等待宝宝的降生。

      [2018年 全国卷3 完形填空]
  • v. 连接; 联系

    真题例句:

    • That relief is coupled with a deep understanding of why the same people keep coming back for more.

      这种解脱伴随着对同一人为什么坚持不断做更多志愿服务的深刻理解。

      [2019年 全国卷2 阅读理解]
必考短语
单词辨析
  • associate指人与人友好和平、平等地联合在一起;用于物时,指两事物因历史或其它原因,很自然被人们联系在一起,即产生联想。

  • attach指把局部连接在整体上,小的接在大的上面,活动的接在固定的上面。

  • combine指两个或两个以上的人或物结合在一起。

  • connect指两事物在某一点上相连接,但彼此又保持独立。

  • couple专指连接两件东西,或把事物成对进行连接。

  • join侧重把原来不相连接的物紧密地连接在一起,但仍可再分开。也指把分散的人或几个部分的人联合起来,或加入到某团体中去。

  • link指连环式的连接,或用接合物或其它方式连接,还可指一事物与另一事物的联系或关系。

真题例句
  • A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

    2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Boy, news travels fast around here! I only got the orders a couple of hours ago.

    2017年高考英语江苏卷 听力 原文
  • But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was committed to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

    2017年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文
  • But I hope to move the family out there in a couple of months' time.

    2017年高考英语江苏卷 听力 原文
  • But more importantly, we made a commitment to grow together as a couple.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文
  • Eventually, the couple found that their bodies turned for the better, with re-found strong muscles that they.

    2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文
  • He bought a smartphone a couple of months ago and he took it on our recent ski vacation to Colorado.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文
  • He told people at a conference, \there have been a couple of studies suggesting they are increasing their song output at night and during the day they are still singing.\

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • I have a couple of pens though.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文
  • I live next door to a couple whose children often make a lot of noise.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 单项选择 原文
  • I'm afraid there are a couple of problems.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文
  • It appeared on some of the first postcards, starred in some of the earliest silent movies, and was the subject of a couple of the earliest photos, dating all the way back to the 1800s.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • It was a popular activity for couples to leisurely walk through town to view the temporary works of chilly art.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • On march 19, Dennis got a group text informing him that a couple he didn't know were at the hospital, waiting for the arrival of a baby.

    2018年高考英语全国卷3 完形填空 原文
  • On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and happiness of the marriage within that home.

    2015年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文
  • While too many couples grow apart, we were growing together.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文
考纲分布

12年出现 39

重要程度
  • 74%

    n 一对; 几个

  • 26%

    n 夫妻; 情侣

考纲释义
  • n. 一对; 几个

    英文释义:

    an indefinite small number

    真题例句:

    • Compared with teens a couple of decades ago, the way they interact with traditional media like books and movies is fundamentally different.

      与几十年前的青少年相比,他们与书籍和电影等传统媒体互动的方式有了根本的不同。

      [2021年 CET4 阅读理解B]
    • Popping food into the microwave for a couple of minutes may seem utterly harmless.

      把食物放到微波炉里快速加热几分钟看起来完全无害。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • If you miss it, you just miss it. I just got zeros on a couple of first assignments. I managed to pull everything back up. But as a scared freshman looking at their grades, it's not fun.

      如果你错过了,你就会错过。我只是在第一次的几个作业中得了零分。我设法挽回了一切。但作为一名害怕的新生,看到他们的成绩,这一点也不好玩。

      [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]
  • n. 夫妻; 情侣

    英文释义:

    two people who are married or engaged

    真题例句:

    • The restaurant mailed the ring back to the happy couple.

      饭店把戒指寄还给了这对幸福的夫妇。

      [2021年 CET4 听力]
    • A new study finds that the risk of divorce among older couples rises when the wife-not the husband- becomes seriously ill.

      一项新的研究发现,年长夫妇中,当妻子(而不是丈夫)身患重病时,离婚风险会上升。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • In the classic marriage vow (誓约) , couples promise to stay together in sickness and in health.

      在经典的婚姻誓约中,夫妻双方承诺无论疾病还是健康都不离不弃。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • couple单独用时可以表示“夫妇”,但是a couple of不是指一对夫妇,而是指“一些, 几个”,a couple of 后面加可数名词复数,相当于a few。示例:A couple of weeks later my mother went into hospital.几周后我母亲住进了医院。

真题例句
  • A decorated egg with a bird on it, given to a young married couple, is a wish for children.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • A couple of recent papers have finally opened a window on these people's extraordinary minds.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • A wonderful bond formed between the two, and within a couple of weeks, the stranger named White helped raise $190,000 on the website to support the Memphis teenager and his disabled mother.

    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • He noticed a couple of days after school, that a group of kids would get together to play chess.

    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years.

    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • I didn't feel any improvement in my condition in the first couple of days, but after a few more regular visits to the doctor, my cough started to lessen.

    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • In Shanghai, a young couple at a marriage registration office told the paper that they decided to register their marriage as soon as possible to take advantage of the existing policy because an extra holiday was a big deal for them.

    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Popping food into the microwave for a couple of minutes may seem utterly harmless, but Europe's stock of these quick-cooking ovens emit as much carbon as nearly 7 million cars, a new study has found.

    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
考纲分布

12年出现 15

重要程度
  • 47%

    n 一对; 几个

  • 33%

    v 连接; 联系

  • 20%

    n 夫妻; 情侣

考纲释义
  • n. 一对; 几个

    英文释义:

    an indefinite small number

  • v. 连接; 联系

  • n. 夫妻; 情侣

    英文释义:

    two people who are married or engaged

用法讲解
  • couple单独用时可以表示“夫妇”,但是a couple of不是指一对夫妇,而是指“一些, 几个”,a couple of 后面加可数名词复数,相当于a few。 示例:A couple of weeks later my mother went into hospital. 几周后我母亲住进了医院。

单词辨析
  • associate指人与人友好和平、平等地联合在一起; 用于物时, 指两事物因历史或其它原因, 很自然被人们联系在一起, 即产生联想。

  • attach指把局部连接在整体上, 小的接在大的上面, 活动的接在固定的上面。

  • combine指两个或两个以上的人或物结合在一起。

  • connect指两事物在某一点上相连接, 但彼此又保持独立。

  • couple专指连接两件东西, 或把事物成对进行连接。

  • join侧重把原来不相连接的物紧密地连接在一起, 但仍可再分开。也指把分散的人或几个部分的人联合起来, 或加入到某团体中去。

  • link指连环式的连接, 或用接合物或其它方式连接, 还可指一事物与另一事物的联系或关系。

真题例句
  • There's rising work demand coupled with the insecurity of mergers, takeovers, downsizing and other factors, Moen said.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Many admissions officers say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each application, including the essay.

    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • Similarly, some couples don't have children because they don't want to sacrifice their own lifestyles to the lime and expense of a family.

    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • To advise couples to think twice before having children

    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • Late-stage developing nations that are currently industrialising rapidly, for example China, which will experience declining rates of population growth, coupled with increasing affluence (富裕)and age profile.

    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • This is then coupled to a school's picture of what a diverse class should look like, with the result that passport, ethnic origin and sex can all become influencing factors.

    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Sylvia and Paul Custerson, a retired couple from Cambridge, England, recently took a 16-day vacation to Namibia, where they went on bird-watching excursions.

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • Design programs targeted at retired couples.

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • A couple of them had listened to a similar speech before.

    出自-2010年6月听力原文
  • The Language School wants me to do a bit of exam preparation, but also quite a lot of work in companies and factories, and a couple of children's classes

    出自-2010年6月听力原文
  • I also do a couple of ad-hoc jobs which are much shorter projects.

    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • She says her findings should be available in a couple of months.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • since 2010, the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed, with more than 80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.

    2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • So I've just got to do my best, and take a couple of seconds to look through the first few lines before I launch into something.

    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • That is, the new offerings companies are pushing out the door every six months or so are me-too products or ones with just a couple of new features.

    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
考纲分布

18年出现 9

重要程度
  • 78%

    n 夫妻; 情侣

  • 11%

    n 一对; 几个

  • 11%

    v 连接; 联系

  • 0%

    v 交配; 抱尾

考纲释义
  • n. 夫妻; 情侣

    英文释义:

    two people who are married or engaged

    真题例句:

    • Couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children.

      夫妻在结婚或生孩子之前应该经济上有保障。

      [2016年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • Pass a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the union.

      在一圈婚姻幸福、受人尊敬的夫妇周围点上蜡烛,祝福他们的结合。

      [2016年 英语一 完型填空]
    • Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together.

      Gottman博士真的想看看一对夫妇是否会在一起。

      [2013年 英语二 阅读理解A]
  • n. 一对; 几个

    英文释义:

    an indefinite small number

    真题例句:

    • A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas.

      几个圣诞节前,我最小的继女得到了一件超人t恤作为圣诞礼物。

      [2016年 英语二 阅读理解B]
    • Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives.

      这些措施有几个令人振奋的动机。

      [2016年 英语一 阅读理解A]
    • In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information.

      在过去的几周里,一场争吵说明了这种细粒度信息对广告商的价值。

      [2013年 英语一 阅读理解A]
  • v. 连接; 联系

  • v. 交配; 抱尾

必考短语
用法讲解
  • couple作名词,表示“一些,几个”时,常用单数形式,常与of连用。接复数名词作主语时,谓语动词侧重整体时用单数形式,侧重个体时用复数形式,如:The last couple of years have been difficult. 过去几年很艰难。

  • couple常用作及物动词,其后可直接接名词或代词,如:couple two freight cars 连接两辆货车。

真题例句
  • According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

    出自-2011年考研阅读原文
  • In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?.

    出自-2013年考研阅读原文
  • Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives.

    出自-2016年考研阅读原文
  • A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter, who was 9 years old at the time, got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas.

    2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertises assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads?

    2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation: two days, not two seconds.

    2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • When work started again on Monday, output duly rose compared with the previous Saturday and continued to rise for the next couple of days.

    2010年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ