• vt. 使成對(duì)
• n. 雙胞胎中一人
• adj. 雙胞胎的
• vi. 成對(duì)；生雙胞胎
• n. (Twin)人名；(英)特溫

詞源同 two,二。引申詞義成雙的，成對(duì)的等，后用于指雙胞胎。

twin

twin: [OE] Twin originally meant simply ‘double’, but the specific application to ‘two people born at the same birth’ had already evolved by the end of the Old English period. The word goes back via prehistoric Germanic *twisnaz to Indo- European *dwisno-, a derivative of the base *dwi- ‘double’ (other derivatives formed with the same -n suffix include English between and twine [OE] – etymologically thread of ‘two’ strands).
=> between, twine, two

twin (adj.)

Old English twinn "consisting of two, twofold, double, two-by-two," from Proto-Germanic *twisnjaz "double" (cognates: Old Norse tvinnr "double, twin," Old Danish tvinling, Dutch tweeling, German zwillung), from PIE *dwisno- (cognates: Latin bini "two each," Lithuanian dvynu "twins"), from *dwi- "double," from root *dwo- "two" (see two). Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota have been the Twin Cities since 1883, but the phrase was used earlier of Rock Island and Davenport (1856).

twin (v.)

"to combine two things closely, join, couple," late 14c., from twin (adj.). Related: Twinned; twinning. In Middle English, the verb earlier and typically meant "to part, part with, separate from, estrange," etc. (c. 1200), on the notion of making two what was one.

twin (n.)

c. 1300, from Old English getwinn "double;" getwinnas "twins, two born at one birth," from twinn (see twin (adj.)).

1. This led Zagreb's twin town, Mainz, to donate ￡70,000-worth of high-quality equipment.

這使得薩格勒布的友好城市美因茨捐贈(zèng)了價(jià)值7萬英鎊的高品質(zhì)裝備。

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2. I think there are many positive aspects to being a twin.

我認(rèn)為身為雙胞胎中的一個(gè)有很多積極方面。

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3. She had a twin brother and a younger brother.

她有一個(gè)雙胞胎哥哥和一個(gè)弟弟。

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4. Edgar cast a disdainful look at his twin.

埃德加朝他的雙胞胎兄弟投去鄙夷的目光。

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5. The plane is an eight-seater with twin propellers.

這架飛機(jī)有8個(gè)座位，靠雙螺旋槳推進(jìn)。

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