| 词汇 | cousin |
| 释义 | cousin noun[ C ] uk /ˈkʌz.ən/ us /ˈkʌz.ən/ A2 a child of a person's aunt or uncle, or, more generally, a distant (= not close) relation: 堂（或表）兄弟;堂（或表）姐妹;远房亲戚 My brother's wife and I both had babies around the same time, so the cousins are very close in age.我嫂子和我差不多同时生了孩子，因此这对表兄妹年纪相仿。 distant cousinMany of our distant cousins, whom we hadn't seen for years, came to my sister's wedding.我们家许多多年未见的远房亲戚赶来参加姐姐的婚礼。 See also first cousin second cousin your relatives relativeAll my relatives gather every year for a family reunion. extended familyHe has a very large extended family. relationShe is a distant relation of his, though I don't quite remember how. kinHe remained true to his kin. mother's/father's side (of the family)I have aunts and uncles on my mother's side of the family. a member of a group of people with similar origins: （具有相似渊源的）兄弟民族（或国家）的人 We Americans owe a great deal to our European cousins.我们美国人得到欧洲兄弟的许多帮助。 something that is related to or similar to another thing: cousin ofThe cardoon is a close cousin of the artichoke. cousin toThe work is a contemporary cousin to Mozart's "Magic Flute". I went over to Ireland for my cousin's wedding. Tiago has nine cousins - five girls and four boys. She ran excitedly down the hall to greet her cousins.她兴奋地跑到大厅里迎接她的表兄弟们。 All of the cousins are very close and love meeting up. Daniel and Ralph are cousins - their mums are sisters. A cousin of the ubiquitous peach, the apricot is available in many varieties. The film has a dark fatalism that renders it a close cousin to Blade Runner. These games are like their popular PS2, GameCube, and Xbox cousins, except no console is needed. Family: relations in general anti-family aunt auntie baby daddy baby mama father fatherhood filial filially first cousin kinsman kinswoman kith and kin long-lost loved one relationship relative removed second cousin sib You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Similar and the same cousin | American Dictionarycousin noun[ C ] us/ˈkʌz·ən/ a child of a person’s aunt or uncle Examples of cousincousin Most marriages, however, occur between relatives, particularly between first cousins (39-3 %), and also between those less closely related (21-3%). That first trip he had to make a long detour to his cousin's house in the mountains to stay the night. Second, it used a wide array of kinship levels, including twins, siblings, half-siblings and cousins, in approximately representative proportions. In diagonal households, heads coresided with their uncles, cousins, or both. The three cousins each lived in separate households but played together regularly. Other problems that need to be addressed in practice include the impact of age differences between cousins on resemblance in the children of twins design. She spent the summer of 1751 with the son of her first cousin and his wife.#! Table 2 shows the frequency of different types of first cousin marriages. The study of consanguinity has brought to light mainly marriages of first cousins, first cousins once removed and second cousins. There was no information to distinguish between first cousins and other cousins. As a result, it was not uncommon in the absence of household division for household heads to live with coresident uncles and coresident older cousins. English, for instance, names cousins and half brothers or sisters, whereas the indigenous languages use brother and sister for all of the above. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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