| 单词 | cousin |
| 释义 | cousin (kʌzən ) Word forms: cousins 1. countable noun [oft with poss] A2 Your cousin is the child of your uncle or aunt. My cousin Mark helped me. We are cousins. 2. See also country cousin, second cousin 3. countable noun If you refer to two things or groups of people as cousins, you mean that they are equivalents or that there is a connection between them. Whereas West Germans drink wine, their Eastern cousins prefer Schnapps. The average European kitchen is smaller than its American cousin. ...misanthropy and its cousin racism. 4. See also country cousin Collocations: distant cousin At best, a distant cousin of the real thing. Times, Sunday Times Why do some chefs think that anyone who criticises them, or even criticises a distant cousin, should be put down or banned? Times, Sunday Times A distant cousin recently let something slip which gave the game away. The Sun He also meets a distant cousin who proves his striking nose runs in the family. The Sun She cooks fresh fish in banana leaves, bakes a cake with red pumpkin and goes to the traditional wedding of a distant cousin. Times, Sunday Times Zoos that house wild cousins of species already shown to be vulnerable are also adopting new safety measures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 China has a dream that the giant pandas it breeds in captivity will one day frolic in the mountains with their wild cousins. Times, Sunday Times They also require a quarter less feed than their wild cousins. Times, Sunday Times Some of their wild cousins were found to be 200 times better at pollinating the trees. Times, Sunday Times Rising numbers of honeybees have left their wild cousins struggling to compete for food. Times,Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 堂表兄弟姊妹 Japanese: いとこ |
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