cousin
noun /ˈkʌzn/
/ˈkʌzn/
- (also first cousin)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。 - This is my cousin Richard.
这是我的表弟理查德。 - He's a cousin once removed (= separated by one generation of our family).
他是我们家的远房表亲。 - She's a cousin of the bride.
她是新娘的表妹。 - cousin to somebody He claims to be a cousin to the Queen.
他自称是女王的表弟。
Topics Family and relationshipsa1- Completely out of the blue, she got a letter from her long-lost cousin in New York.
她收到失散很久的堂亲从纽约寄来的一封信,完全出乎意料。 - I have a new baby cousin.
我有个新出生的小堂妹。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- first
- second
- distant
- …
- cousin once, twice, etc. removed
- She's my cousin.
远房亲戚;远亲 - She's some sort of cousin, I think.
我想她是某种表亲。 - cousin of somebody/sb's He's a distant cousin of mine.
他是我远房的一个表亲。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- first
- second
- distant
- …
- cousin once, twice, etc. removed
- She's some sort of cousin, I think.
- [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
- our American cousins
- [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。 - These pigs are close cousins of the wild hog.
这些猪和野猪是近亲。
- Asian elephants are smaller than their African cousins.
词源Middle English: from Old French cosin, from Latin consobrinus ‘mother's sister's child’, from con- ‘with’ + sobrinus ‘second cousin’ (from soror ‘sister’).