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cross-cousin

/kraws-kuhz-uhn, kros-/US // ˈkrɔsˌkʌz ən, ˈkrɒs- //

表哥,表弟,表兄妹,表亲

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's brother or one's father's sister.

Examples

  • The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.

  • If they were meaningful, we might have realized it before—surely one of these kids wore a cross, or a yarmulke, or a hijab?

  • The reason: activist government and unionized government often work at cross purposes.

  • Mating with a cousin or brother is safer than risking life and limb to mate with an outsider.

  • What do you get when you cross an oil company with gay rights?

  • In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).

  • Cousin George's position is such a happy one, that conversation is to him a thing superfluous.

  • From the moment that he touches the magical little hand, cousin George is eclipsed.

  • I cannot believe that God would think it necessary to come on earth as a man, and die on the Cross.

  • As a matter of fact, it was a very distant cousin of hers who had died, a Mrs. Fanshawe Collingwood, who also lived in the town.