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one of two children born at the same time to the same mother 孿生兒之一;雙胞胎之一 She's expecting twins. 她懷着雙胞胎。 If you're carrying (= expecting) twins or triplets, that can put you at risk. 如果你懷的是雙胞胎或三胞胎,那你就有危險了。 I'm 5 months pregnant with twins. 我懷了5個月的雙胞胎。
Collocations Childrensee also conjoined twin, dizygotic twin, fraternal twin, identical twin, monozygotic twin, non-identical twin, Siamese twinChildren 孩子 Having a baby/child 懷孕 - want a baby/a child/kids
想要孩子 - start a family
生孩子 - conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
懷孕 - miss your period
月經未按期來 - become/get/be/find out that you are pregnant
懷孕了;發現懷孕了 - have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
有一個寶寶/一個孩子/孩子/一個兒子/一個女兒/一對雙胞胎/孩子 - have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
正常/歷經艱難/意外懷孕;順産;難産;在家中分娩 - be in/go into/induce labour (especially US English) labor
分娩;催産 - have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
流産;引起流産 - give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
生了一個孩子/一個寶寶/一個女兒/一個兒子/一對雙胞胎
Parenting 養育;撫養;教養 - bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/family
撫養孩子 - care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/child/kid
照顧小孩 - change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/a baby
換尿布;給嬰兒換尿布 - feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
喂孩子;給孩子哺乳;用奶瓶喂養孩子 - be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
有權利休/正在休産假/陪産假 - go back/return to work after maternity leave
産假後回到工作崗位 - need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
需要/找到一個臨時保姆/負擔得起的高質量兒童保育 - balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
平衡/兼顧工作與照顧小孩/撫養小孩/家庭生活 - educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
教育孩子;給孩子家庭教育 - punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
懲罰/管教/嬌慣孩子 - adopt a baby/child/kid
收養小孩 - offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
把小孩給人收養 - (especially British English) foster a child/kid
代養小孩 - be placed with/be raised by foster parents
被交給寄養父母;由寄養父母撫養
Extra ExamplesTopics Holidaysa2, Family and relationshipsa2His long-lost twin was searching for him. 他失散多年的雙胞胎兄弟正在尋找他。 I was the older twin. 我是雙胞胎中的哥哥。 My sister had twins. 我姐姐生了雙胞胎。 The twins were separated at birth. 這對雙胞胎出生時被分開了。 adult twins who were raised apart 分開撫養長大的成年雙胞胎 the plot device of giving a character an evil twin 讓某人物有一個邪惡的孿生兄弟這一情節設計
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- identical
- monozygotic
- dizygotic
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- pair
- set
- be carrying
- be pregnant with
- expect
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- boys
- girls
- daughters
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one of two similar things that make a pair 一對相像的事物之一 The plate was one of a pair but I broke its twin. 這盤子原來有一對,我打壞了一個。
Word Originlate Old English twinn ‘double’, from twi- ‘two’; related to Old Norse tvinnr. Current verb senses date from late Middle English.