cousin读音:英[ˈkʌzn] 美[ˈkʌzn]
翻译:n.表妹;表兄(或弟、姊、妹);堂兄(或弟、姊、妹);远亲;远房亲戚;同辈表亲(或堂亲);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);
例句
1.She's my cousin.
她是我的表妹。
2.I tried again to get ahold of my cousin Joan.
我再次尝试联系我的表妹琼。
3.I'm not sure of the exact relationship between them ─ I think they're cousins.
我不太清楚他们之间的确切关系——我想他们是表亲。
4.It turns out that her aunt and my cousin are one and the same.
原来她姑妈就是我表姐。
5.He's my cousin's son so he's my first cousin once removed.
他是我表兄弟的儿子，所以他是我隔了一代的表亲。
6.He's a distant cousin of mine.
他是我远房的一个表亲。
7.At 15, he was more worldly than his older cousins who lived in the country.
他15岁时就比他那些居住在乡村的表兄们懂人情世故了。
8.We're cousins.
我们是表亲。
9.The average European kitchen is smaller than its American cousin.
欧式的厨房一般比美式厨房小。
10.The cousins tolerated each other, but did not really get on well together.
这对表亲互相容忍，但是相处得并不真正融洽。
11.The two cousins looked as if they'd been carved from blocks of ice.
两个堂姊妹看起来像由冰块雕刻而成。
12.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。
13.She looks a bit like his cousin Maureen
她长得有点儿像他表姐莫琳。
14.She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins
她带他们去拜访她那些不苟言笑的表兄表姐们。
15.He tracked down his cousin and uncle. The latter was sick.
他追查到了堂弟和叔叔的下落，发现叔叔这时正在病中。