twin
twin 英 [twɪn] 美 [twɪn]
v. 使成对 n. 双胞胎中一人 adj. 双胞胎的
进行时:twinning 过去式:twinned 过去分词:twinned 第三人称单数:twins 名词复数:twins
- When mammals have two babies at once, each of them is a twin. If you have a twin brother or sister, the two of you are always the same age.
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- v. 使成对
- n. 双胞胎中一人
- adj. 双胞胎的
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1. His wife gave birth to twin girls.
她妻子生了一对双胞胎女孩。
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2. She's expecting twins.
她怀着双胞胎。
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3. Oxford is twinned with Bonn in Germany.
牛津和德国的波恩结成了友好城市。
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4. twin boys, twin girls
孪生男孩╱女孩
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5. a twin brother, a twin sister
孪生兄弟╱姐妹中的一个
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6. a ship with twin propellers
有双螺旋桨的船
- twin (adj.) Old English twinn "consisting of two, twofold, double, two-by-two," from Proto-Germanic *twisnjaz "double" (source also of Old Norse tvinnr "double, twin," Old Danish tvinling, Dutch tweeling, German zwillung), from PIE *dwisno- (source also of Latin bini "two each," Lithuanian dvynu "twins"), from *dwi- "double," from root *dwo- "two." Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota have been the Twin Cities since 1883, but the phrase was used earlier of Rock Island and Davenport (1856).
- twin (n.) c. 1300, from Old English getwinn "double;" getwinnas "twins, two born at one birth," from twinn (see twin (adj.)).
- twin (v.) "to combine two things closely, join, couple," late 14c., from twin (adj.). Related: Twinned; twinning. In Middle English, the verb earlier and typically meant "to part, part with, separate from, estrange," etc. (c. 1200), on the notion of making two what was one.
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