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Cousin ˈkʌzn Child Uncle People Noun Similar N Count

A cousin is the child of one's uncle or aunt. The term can also refer to a more distant relative or to anything that is similar or connected to something else.

A cousin is the child of one's uncle or aunt. The term can also refer to a more distant relative or to anything that is similar or connected to something else.

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/kʌ̱z(ə)n/
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]See also:
country cousin
second cousin
同辈表亲(或堂亲);堂兄弟(或姐妹);表兄弟(或姐妹) Your cousin is the child of your uncle or aunt.
  [oft with poss]
  • My cousin Mark helped me...

    表兄马克帮了我。

  • We are cousins.

    我们是表亲。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]See also:
country cousin
对等物;对等的人;相关的人(或事物) 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...

    西德人喝葡萄酒,而他们东德的兄弟姐妹则喜欢喝杜松子酒。

  • The average European kitchen is smaller than its American cousin.

    欧式的厨房一般比美式厨房小。

  • ...misanthropy and its cousin racism.

    憎恨人类和它的近亲种族主义


Oxford cousin / ˈkʌzn ; NAmE ˈkʌzn / noun 1 ( also ˌfirst ˈcousin ) a child of your aunt or uncle 同辈表亲(或堂亲);堂兄(或弟、姊、妹);表兄(或弟、姊、妹) She's my cousin. 她是我的表妹。 We're cousins. 我们是表亲。 see also
country cousin
,
second cousin
2 a person who is in your wider family but who is not closely related to you 远房亲戚;远亲 He's a distant cousin of mine. 他是我远房的一个表亲。 3 [usually plural ] a way of describing people from another country who are similar in some way to people in your own country 兄弟的…国人民(对与本民族有某些类似的另一国家人民的说法) our American cousins 我们兄弟的美国人民 4 [usually plural ] a way of describing things that are similar or related in some way 同族;同类 Asian elephants are smaller than their African cousins. 亚洲象比它们的非洲同类小些。 cousin cousins
cousin / ˈkʌzn ; NAmE ˈkʌzn /
LDC
cousincous‧in /ˈkʌzən/ ●●● S2 noun [countable]
Word Origin
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1the child of your uncle or aunt
first cousin
, kissing cousin
, second cousin
2something that has the same origins as something elsecousin of/to a drug that is a chemical cousin to amphetaminesclose/distant cousin The Alaskan brown bear is a close cousin of the grizzly bear.3someone or something that is similar to someone or something else:  His avant-garde music, sometime cousin to jazz, had limited appeal.
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cousin

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n.堂兄弟姊妹;表兄弟姊妹

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