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- a person who takes part in an undertaking with another or others, especially in a business or firm with shared risks and profits合作者; 股东, 合伙人。
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- either of two people dancing together or playing a game or sport on the same side搭档, 同伴。
1.2
- either member of a married couple or of an established unmarried couple (often used neutrally to avoid specifying whether a couple is married or not)配偶; 伴侣（通常用作中性词, 以避免明确两人是否已结婚）：
she lived with her partner.
她与她的伴侣住在一起。
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- a person with whom one has sex; a lover性伴侣; 情人。
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- US dated or dialect a friendly form of address by one man to another〈美, 旧或方〉伙计：
how you doing, partner?
你好吗, 伙计？
with obj.
1- be the partner of做…的搭档; 使合伙：
young farmers who partnered Isabel to the village dance.
与伊莎贝尔结伴去参加村里舞会的年轻农夫。
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- no obj. N. Amer. associate as partners〈北美〉合伙; 成为搭档：
I never expected to partner with a man like you.
我从未期望与一个像你这样的人合作。
派生词
partnerless
adjective词源
Middle English: alteration of parcener 'partner, joint heir', from Anglo-Norman French parcener, based on Latin partitio（n-） 'partition'. The change in the first syllable was due to association with PART.