Pair
[peə] or [pɛr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value.
(noun.) two people considered as a unit.
(noun.) a set of two similar things considered as a unit.
(verb.) arrange in pairs; 'Pair these numbers'.
(verb.) occur in pairs.
(verb.) form a pair or pairs; 'The two old friends paired off'.
乔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
(n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
(n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
(n.) A married couple; a man and wife.
(n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
(n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
(n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
(v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
(v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
(v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
(v. t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
(v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
(v. t.) To impair.
埃塞雷德編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Two (of the same kind or suited to each other), couple, brace, SPAN.
v. a. & n. Couple.
埃利斯手打
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Two, couple, span, brace
ANT:One, several
艾娜錄入
解釋/意思:
v.t. (Spens.) to impair.
n. two things equal or suited to each other or used together: a set of two equal or like things forming one instrument as a pair of scissors tongs &c. a set of like things generally: in building a flight of stairs: a couple: a man and his wife: two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions who agree with each other to abstain from voting for a certain time so as to permit one or both to be absent.—v.t. to join in couples.—v.i. to be joined in couples: to fit as a counterpart.—adj. Paired arranged in pairs: set by twos of a like kind: mated.—ns. Pair′ing an agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting so that both may absent themselves; Pair′ing-time the time when birds go together in pairs; Pair′-roy′al three cards of the same denomination esp. in cribbage.—adv. Pair′-wise in pairs.—Pair of colours two flags carried by a regiment one the national ensign the other the flag of the regiment; Pair off (see Pairing above).
海因里希錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- And he had hardly looked up, to see what the matter was, when he was stopped by having a pair of arms thrown tight round his neck. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The man knew her, and might by a fortunate chance see her, or hear of her; that was something, as enlisting one pair of eyes and ears the more. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Could you commission any friend of yours to bring me a pair, if you've no further use for 'em? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Let's get the scaffolding up, then, for a pair of whiskers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The Earl had procured a pair of horses somehow, in spite of Mrs. Crawley, and was rolling on the road to Ghent. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Upward of three thousand such machines were then at work throughout the world; and one hundred and fifty million pairs of boots were then being made annually thereon. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Fifty-five Million Pairs of Boots and Shoes then Annually Pegged. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It is said that up to 1877 there were 350,000,000 pairs of shoes made on this machine in the United States, and probably an equal or greater number in Europe. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The shoes next go to the packing department, where they are taken off the lasts, inspected, marked, tied together in pairs, sorted and packed. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A few pairs of shoes from time to time. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I have two pairs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I gave him a nickel, and he elbowed his way in; and throwing the money on the counter, the store being filled with women clerks, he said: 'Give me three pairs. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Ye'd see yoursel' 'at William's sorely changed--fair paired. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Mr. Helstone opined that they were like other fools who had just paired--insensible to inconvenience just for the moment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The others paired off as before, and this arrangement left Jo companionless. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Other magnates paired off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Now, I beseech you, do tell me, have you ever attended to their pairing and breeding? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- This is surely pairing time, for you three young men seem to be all choosing mates. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
校對:利昂