Cousin
['kʌz(ə)n] or ['kʌzn]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
(n.) A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.
(n.) Allied; akin.
錄入:劳伦斯
解釋/意思:
n. formerly a kinsman generally; now the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt: a term used by a sovereign in addressing another or to one of his own noblemen: something kindred or related to another.—ns. Cous′in-ger′man a first cousin: something closely related; Cous′inhood Cous′inship.—adj. Cous′inly like or having the relation of a cousin.—n. Cous′inry cousins collectively.—First cousins children of brothers and sisters—also called Cousins-german Full cousins; First cousin once removed the son or daughter of a cousin-german—sometimes loosely called Second cousin; Second cousins the children of first cousins.
芭芭拉校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Dreaming of one's cousin, denotes disappointments and afflictions. Saddened lives are predicted by this dream. To dream of an affectionate correspondence with one's cousin, denotes a fatal rupture between families.
錄入:皮埃尔
例句/造句/用法:
- This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer of polite manners and superfluous aspirates. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Gives it that his cousin is out of town. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And there must be no letter-scribbling to your cousin Hortense--no intercourse whatever. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Is appealed to, at the fish stage of the banquet, by Veneering, on the disputed question whether his cousin Lord Snigsworth is in or out of town? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He had been too fond of his cousin to like to confess this to himself, until the truth had been forced on him, when she drove off to her aunt's. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Oh, my dear good Esther, said Ada, if I could only make up my mind to speak to you and my cousin John when you are together! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Tis a cousin of Miss Vye's, come to take Charley's place from curiosity. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- My cousin Thomasin. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Well, cousin, said Miss Ophelia, thoughtfully, there may be some truth in this. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- But Mr. Bruff reminded me that somebody must put my cousin's legacy into my cousin's hands--and that I might as well do it as anybody else. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Mrs. Strong had declined to play, on the ground of not feeling very well; and her cousin Maldon had excused himself because he had some packing to do. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It is from my cousin, Mr. Collins, who, when I am dead, may turn you all out of this house as soon as he pleases. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- MY DEAR COUSIN, I cannot describe to you the uneasiness we have all felt concerning your health. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The aunt brought her up, and she and the cousin have been like sisters. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Miss Price, will not you join me in encouraging your cousin? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Even cousins may be sorry to part; and in truth I am very, very sorry, Richard, though I know it's for your welfare. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Her Ladyship kept her room when the ladies from the Rectory visited their cousins at the Hall. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I happened to ride back with my cousins and the groom. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Mr. Franklin snatched a morsel from the luncheon-table, and rode off to Frizinghall--to escort his cousins, as he told my lady. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Of my relations with my two cousins you are ignorant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She was civil, kind, attentive even to her cousins; but still she usually had little to say to them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But if I had mine, glancing at the cousins, there should be no brambles of sordid realities in such a path as that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- My cousins have been so plaguing me! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- These private considerations, combined with political reasons, fixed his resolution of separating the cousins. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She cried bitterly over this reflection when her uncle was gone; and her cousins, on seeing her with red eyes, set her down as a hypocrite. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Volumnia is away next day, and all the cousins are scattered before dinner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I had better tell _you_ than my aunt, she said, or than my cousins, or my uncle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Mary, she is not like her cousins; but I think I shall not ask in vain. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- We agreed that we were to be cousins, and nothing more. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
校對:梅雷迪思