1 QUANT 两个;几个 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. 两个;几个
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Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard. [+ of]
我对面的街上有几名警官在站岗。
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I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days. [+ of]
我想问题几天内就会解决。
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...a small working-class town in Mas-sachusetts, a couple of hundred miles from New York City. [+ of]
马萨诸塞州的一个工人阶层居住的小镇，距纽约市几百英里
Couple is also a determiner in spoken American English, and before 'more' and 'less'.
(在美国口语中以及在 more 和 less 前亦用作限定词) Couple is also a pronoun.
2 N-COUNT-COLL [with singular or plural verb] 夫妻;情人 A couple is two people who are married, living together, or having a sexual relationship. 夫妻;情人
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The couple have no children.
这对夫妻没有孩子。
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...after burglars ransacked an elderly couple's home.
窃贼洗劫了一对老夫妇的家之后
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...an isolated spot popular with courting couples.
很受热恋情侣欢迎的僻静之所
SYN husband and wife, pair, item
3 N-COUNT-COLL [with singular or plural verb] (在某种场合在一起或有某种关系的)一对人，两个人 A couple is two people that you see together on a particular occasion or that have some association. (在某种场合在一起或有某种关系的)一对人，两个人
4 VERB [usually passive] 加上;结合 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. 加上;结合
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...a problem that is coupled with lower demand for the machines themselves. [be VERB-ed + with]
这个问题外加上对机器本身需求量的下降
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Overuse of those drugs, coupled with poor diet, leads to physical degeneration.
过量使用那些药物再加上饮食缺乏营养，导致健康状况恶化。
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This, coupled with the fact that flying machines remained universally a subject for jeers and derision, made the brothers secretive. [VERB-ed]
这一点，加上飞行器仍是人们普遍嘲笑和讥讽的对象，使得兄弟俩只能暗地里行事。
5 VERB [usually passive] (把设备等)连接，结合 If one piece of equipment is coupled to another, it is joined to it so that the two pieces of equipment work together. (把设备等)连接，结合
| Word Link | copul, coupl ≈ join : copula, copulate, couple |
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