twinned

英 [twɪnd]

美 [twɪnd]

v.  使结成姊妹城市; 使结成友好地区; 使(两人或两事物)紧密结合; 使耦合; 使相连
twin的过去式

COCA.42074

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 双胞胎之一;孪生儿之一
  If two people aretwins, they have the same mother and were born on the same day.
  1. Sarah was looking after the twins...
     萨拉当时正在照管那对双胞胎。
  2. I think there are many positive aspects to being a twin…
     我认为身为双胞胎中的一个有很多积极方面。
  3. She had a twin brother and a younger brother.
     她有一个双胞胎哥哥和一个弟弟。
• ADJ 成对的;成双的
  Twinis used to describe a pair of things that look the same and are close together.
  1. ...the twin spires of the cathedral.
     大教堂的那对尖塔
  2. ...the world's largest twin-engined aircraft.
     世界上最大的双引擎飞机
• ADJ 相似的;相关的
  Twinis used to describe two things or ideas that are similar or connected in some way.
  1. ...the twin concepts of liberty and equality...
     自由与平等这两个密切相关的概念
  2. Nothing was done to save these women from the twin evils of begging or the workhouse.
     没有采取任何措施把这些妇女从乞讨或济贫院这两大相似的灾难中拯救出来。
• VERB 使结成友好地区;使结为特殊关系
  When a place or organization in one countryis twinned witha place or organization in another country, a special relationship is formally established between them.
  1. Five Polish banks are to be twinned with counterparts in Western Europe...
     5 家波兰银行将和 5 家西欧银行结为姐妹银行。
  2. The borough is twinned with Kasel in Germany.
     该自治市与德国的卡瑟尔市结成了友好城市。
• ADJ (镇或市)友好的,姐妹的
  Twintowns or cities are twinned with each other.
  1. This led Zagreb's twin town, Mainz, to donate £70,000-worth of high-quality equipment.
     这使得萨格勒布的友好城市美因茨捐赠了价值 7 万英镑的高品质装备。

in AM, use 美国英语用 sister cities


• See also:identical twinSiamese twin

英英释义

adj

• being two identical
  Synonym:duplicatematchingtwin(a)

双语例句

• F A grading term used at the mines for broken diamond crystals above one carat, of reasonable thickness, and not twinned.
  六在一个级别的字眼地雷破一克拉以上的钻石晶体，厚度合理，不结为姊妹。
• The two dollars of dual system is inextricably and twinned each other in all levels of education and the segments of the basic elements.
  双元制“的两个”元是不可分割地存在于教育的各个层面、各个环节的基本元素，是成对出现的。
• The formation mechanism of multi-fold twinned structures during annealing of multiple grain systems was investigated.
  通过模拟多晶粒体系退火，研究了在材料退火过程中形成多重孪晶结构的可能性。
• Diopside crystals have a perfect cleavage in two directions, are often twinned and are short and columnar, but with an uneven fracture.
  透辉石有两个方向的完全解理，通常为孪晶生成，短且成圆柱形，断口参差不平。
• The Nolans are fond of doubled characters and mirrored plots, and so Interstellar is built around twinned father-daughter stories.
  诺兰喜爱双重性的人物与互为镜像的情节，《星际穿越》也是建立在父女之间双重叙述的故事之上。
• Liverpool, which is twinned with Shanghai, is the only UK city other than London to be invited to the event, dubbed the "business Olympics" by one diplomat.
  作为上海的姊妹城市，利物浦是除伦敦外唯一受邀参展的英国城市。这届世博会被一位外交官称作是商业奥运会。
• A periodically twinned SiC nanowire was found under the HRTEM. According to the mass researches of defects in one-dimensional materials, the cause and the forming process of the twinned structure were analyzed.
  在SiC纳米线的生长过程中，可以观察到具有周期性孪晶结构的SiC纳米线，根据对一维纳米材料中所出现缺陷的广泛研究，我们适当的解释了该结构形成的原因以及形成的过程。
• The letters are the twinned initials of Yao and Ye, explained Miao on a live TV show in Shanghai.
  这两个字母是姚明和叶莉二人名字的开头字母，苗立杰在上海的一档直播电视节目中解释到。
• Last December Birmingham was twinned with the Chinese city of Guangzhouand in June the Chinese ambassador to the uk, Madame Fu ying, visitedbirmingham to launch a new china-birmingham business forum.
  去年12月伯明翰和中国广州市结成了姐妹城市，今年六月中国驻英国大师傅莹女士造访伯明翰并启动了一个新的中国伯明翰商业论坛。
• This city is twinned with Shanghai in China.
  这个城市与中国的上海结为姐妹城市。