couple: [13] The notion underlying couple is of ‘joining’. The noun came into English via Old French from Latin cōpula ‘tie, connection’. This was a compound noun formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and the verb apere ‘fasten’ (source of English apt, adapt, adept, and inept). Derived from it was the verb cōpulāre, source of English copulate [17]. => adapt, adept, apt, copulate, inept
couple (v.)
c. 1200, from Old French copler, from cople (see couple (n.)). Related: Coupled; coupling.
couple (n.)
late 13c., from Old French cople "married couple, lovers" (12c., Modern French couple), from Latin copula "tie, connection," from PIE *ko-ap-, from *ko(m)- "together" + *ap- "to take, reach." Meaning broadened mid-14c. to "any two things."
双语例句
1. The couple married in the Caribbean to avoid a media circus.
为了摆脱媒体的关注，这对新人在加勒比喜结连理。
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2. Dave, the pianist, played it over a couple of times.
演奏钢琴的戴夫将这支曲子反复弹了两三遍。
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3. She had hoped the couple would put on a show of unity.
她曾经希望那对夫妇会表现出和睦相处的样子。
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4. The couple had helped in the hunt for the toddlers.
这对夫妇曾帮着搜寻那些幼童。
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5. She had written him a note a couple of weeks earlier.