| 单词 | brother |
| 释义 | brother (brʌðəʳ ) Word forms: brothers language note: The old-fashioned form brethren is still sometimes used as the plural for meanings [sense 3] and , [sense 4]. 1. countable noun [oft poss NOUN] A1 Your brother is a boy or a man who has the same parents as you. Oh, so you're Peter's younger brother. Have you got any brothers and sisters? Synonyms: male sibling 2. See also half-brother, stepbrother 3. countable noun [usually poss NOUN] You can describe a man as your brother if he belongs to the same race, religion, country, profession, or trade union as you, or if he has similar ideas to you. He told reporters he'd come to be with his Latvian brothers. ...the Cardinal and his brother bishops. 4. title noun & countable noun Brother is a title given to a man who belongs to a religious community such as a monastery. ...Brother Otto. ...the Christian Brothers community which owns the castle. 5. countable noun Brothers is used in the names of some companies and shops. ...the film company Warner Brothers. Collocations: fraternity brother When his fraternity brothers learnt that it would not be covered by his medical insurance, they decided to help. Times, Sunday Times It's like the financial world: fraternity brothers would hire their fraternity brothers, and it was just the way the world was. Times, Sunday Times He taught his fraternity brothers to play a variety of card games, including bridge as well as many poker variants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Eventually, he got tired from all this exercise and was carried thereafter by the fraternity brothers to each new position. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The wide-ranging iterations of bro include twenty-something investment bankers, fraternity brothers in flannel shirts, and laconic surfers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A glove-maker hit hard by her little brother's death takes refuge in an elegant world of numbers. Times, Sunday Times (2015) My mother used to call him her darling little brother. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Mum and Dad in the front, me and my sister on the back seat, and my little brother on the parcel shelf. Times, Sunday Times (2014) In the hotel we can take as much as we like and my little brother put forty pickled onions on his plate with his bacon and egg. SAMSON SUPERSLUG (2003) Then his little brother sickened, and died too. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Because my identical twin brother was old enough to know. Times, Sunday Times (2016) There had been a gentleness in Lonnie that was lacking in his twin brother. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH My twin brother and I went to good schools and we spent summers lolling about on a beach in Italy. Times, Sunday Times (2013) This time he also plays his own twin brother. The Sun (2014) My older brother and my twin brother tease me as well. The Sun (2006) Translations: Chinese: 兄弟 older brother Japanese: 兄弟 |
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