a person or thing that has the same position or function as somebody/something else in a different place or situation 职位(或作用)相当的人;对应的事物 The Foreign Minister held talks with his Chinese counterpart. 外交部长与中国的同级官员举行了会谈。 The women's shoe, like its male counterpart, is specifically designed for the serious tennis player. 像同类的男款鞋一样,这款女鞋是专为认真从事网球运动的人设计的。
Extra ExamplesEuropean environmentalists have their counterparts in the US. 欧洲有环保主义者,美国也有。 The actress who played the Queen looked uncannily like her real-life counterpart. 扮演女王的演员与现实中的女王惊人地相像。 The president met his French counterpart. 总统会见了法国总统。 Women soldiers will join their male counterparts at the army base. 女兵将加入到这个陆军基地的男兵之中。 corporations that trade with their counterparts in other countries 与其他国家同行做生意的公司 the difficulty of translating terms with no direct counterpart in the other language 翻译译入语中没有直接对应词的术语的困难 the modern counterparts of those medieval writers 那些中世纪作家的现代同行
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- counterpart in