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au pair

/oh -pair/US // oʊ ˈpɛər //

互惠生,互助生,互助学生,助教

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person, usually a young foreign visitor, employed to take care of children, do housework, etc., in exchange for room and board: We sent the children to the beach with the au pair.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or employed under such an arrangement: an au pair girl.

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Examples

  • Oh, and the first press image they released was a pair of black dudes in tracksuits as a troll of sorts to NME.

  • It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.

  • Gurley was gunned down on Nov. 20, when a pair of cops was patrolling the rough housing project.

  • One of them had not been given time to get dressed; he was perp-walked wearing only a pair of boxers.

  • They waved down a pair of responding cops who followed the alleged cop killer into the subway.

  • He stood, with the air of a hero, both arms extended towards the amazed pair of lovers.

  • Under the long lashes of low lids a pair of eyes black and insolent set off the haughty lines of her scarlet lips.

  • Here the pair reached the "Dun Cow" and retired to their respective quarters.

  • Since words have different meanings, we may sometimes find that a pair of words exemplify all three Laws, as plough and sword.

  • The opposite of these two methods of rote learning is my method, which injects an active process between each pair of words.