英：[tweɪn]
美：[tweɪn]
twain如何读
twain是什么意思
- n.<古>二；对；双
- adj.一对的；二的
twain英英释义
noun
two
couple, pair
biographical name
Mark see clemens
pronoun
twoespecially: two fathoms
mark twain
adjective
two
twain词组
mark twainn. 马克·吐温（美国小说家）
twain词源中文解释
古英语 twegen “两个”（男性主格和宾格），来自原始日耳曼语 *twa- “两个”，源自 PIE 词根 *dwo- “两个”。它对应于古弗里西亚语 twene，荷兰语 twee，古高地德语 zwene，丹麦语 tvende。该词在中古英语中的性别瓦解后仍然存在，并作为 two 的次要形式继续存在，特别是在数词跟在名词后面的情况下。它在现代继续存在的原因是因为它在 KJV 和婚礼仪式中的使用，在诗歌中（它是一个有用的押韵词），以及在口语中使用时，需要清楚地表明是指 two 而不是 to 或 too。在美国航海用语中，自1799年起用作“两个英寻的深度”。
twain词源英文解释
Adjective Middle English, from Old English twēgen — more at two
The first known use of twain was before the 12th century
twain儿童词典英英释义
twang1 of 2noun
a harsh quick ringing sound
nasal speech
twang2 of 2verb
to sound or cause to sound with a twang
to speak with a nasal twang
twang1 of 2noun
a harsh quick ringing sound
nasal speech
twang2 of 2verb
to sound or cause to sound with a twang
to speak with a nasal twang
twainnoun
two sense 1
two persons or things : couple, pair
twain 例句
1 Mark Twain knew how to sell a book.
马克·吐温知道怎么推销自己的书。
2 ‘One of the twain. The other is with Théoden of Rohan and may come hereafter. Halflings they are, as you see, yet this is not he of whom the omens spoke.’
3 In Alabama, the ‘twain just don’t meet.
4 There is red America and there is blue, and never the twain shall meet.
5 “There’s great wealth here and great poverty, and never the twain shall meet,” says Crowley.
6 News to me—as I had attended public schools where the teachers taught and the coaches coached—and rarely did the twain even meet.
7 Eight times a week he clefts himself in twain for the delectation of largely female audiences who love him just for his selves.
8 What the show’s TV incarnation demonstrates, at least in its current configuration, is that the twain still do not meet.
9 It is almost a fact that north and south India are two different countries and "never the twain shall meet".
10 There are many things that we can learn from Mark Twain.
在马克·吐温身上我们能学到许多东西。
11 Spider-Man had earlier been sold off to Sony, while the Fantastic Four belong to Twentieth Century Fox – and never the twain shall meet.
12 East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
东是东,西是西,故而两者永远不相遇。
13 Brothers twain has Gallus.
14 But today, the Trondheim twain is working on dialing in their one-year intensive and immersive music program for artists, producers, and songwriters.
15 The question this time is: Where do the twain meet?
16 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
有人强逼你走一里路,你就同他走二里。
17 To an Italian, they're completely incomprehensible, because pasta is a primo piatto, a first course, and meat is a secondo, and never the twain shall meet.
18 My head might cleave in twain!
19 In Puccini’s by-now universal story, two star-crossed lovers, a Japanese woman and a white man, together embody Rudyard Kipling’s dictum: “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.”
20 And somehow those twains haven’t really met and coalesced the way we need to.
twain 同义词
twain 短语相关
never the twain shall meet