twosome

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group of two; a pair; a couple; a group of two distinct individuals or components.
    — And I was tooling along a mossy path with the brow a bit wet with honest sweat, when there came to my ears the unmistakable sound of somebody reading poetry to someone, and the next moment I found myself confronting a mixed twosome who had dropped anchor beneath a shady tree in what is known as a leafy glade.
  2. A dance for two people.
形容词 adj.
  1. Being or constituting a pair; two. not-comparable
  2. Twofold; double. not-comparable
  3. Performed by two individuals. not-comparable
    — a twosome dance

词形变化

twosomes plural

词汇关系

近义词
duo pair
衍生词
gruesome twosome

词源

词源 1
From Middle English twosome, equivalent to two + -some. Cognate with Scots twasome, twaesome (“twosome”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁der.
Proto-Germanic *twai
Proto-West Germanic *twai-der.
Old English twēġen
Old English twā
Middle English two
English two
English -some
English twosome
From two + -some.
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