;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; NAmEˈkʌzn/noun1★(alsoˌfirst 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。cousincousinscousin/ˈkʌzn; NAmEˈkʌzn/
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cousincous‧in /ˈkʌzən/ ●●●S2 noun [countable]
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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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