twain是什么意思

时间：2026-09-07 06:46:27

单词 twain

音标英 [tweɪn] 美 [tweɪn]

释义 num. 两；二；两个n. （Twain）人名：吐温

twain 常用

短语搭配

(1)never the twain shall meet二者永远合不到一起, 泾渭分明, 大相径庭

(2)Mark Twain[人名]马克·吐温(美国幽默大师、小说家、作家、演说家)

双语例句

(1)There were either slave owners or slaves, and never the twain shall meet.

这里要么是奴隶主要么是奴隶，两种人根本合不到一块儿去。

(2)He is him, I am me, and never the twain shall meet.

他是他，我是我，两者永不相交。

(3)I divided this cake in twain.

我把这块蛋糕一分为二。

(4)Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln.

吐温是个令人钦佩的人物，可以与亚伯拉罕·林肯相提并论。

(5)Determined to make his fortune in South America, Mark Twain set off from his home for New Orleans in his teens.

马克·吐温决心在南美洲发家致富，十几岁时便从家乡出发前往新奥尔良。

(6)Twain recalls being invited to an official White House dinner and being warned by his wife, Olivia, who stayed at home, not to wear his winter galoshes.

吐温回忆有一次被邀请参加一个白宫的正式晚宴，呆在家中的妻子奥利维亚警告他不许穿他的冬季套鞋。

(7)Twain was a gifted public speaker;

吐温是一位天才的公众演说家。

(8)Mark Twain knew how to sell a book.

马克·吐温知道怎么推销自己的书。

同义词

n. 两；二；一对

liang tael

twain 牛津

释义

cardinal number

archaic term for TWO.

〈古〉同TWO

he split it in twain.

　他把它劈成两半。

Mark (1835—1910), American novelist and humorist; pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His best-known novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), give a vivid evocation of Mississippi frontier life.

吐温，马克（１８３５—１９１０，美国小说家、幽默家萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门斯的笔名；他最著名的小说《汤姆·索耶历险记》［１８７６］和《哈克贝里·芬历险记》［１８８５］生动描绘了密西西比的边境生活）。

短语

never the twain shall meet used to suggest that two things are too different to exist alongside each other 两者永远合不到一块 families were either ‘church' or ‘chapel' and never the twain shall meet. 家庭要么是“教堂”，要么是“小礼拜堂”，只能为其一，不能兼而有之

［ORIGIN from Rudyard Kipling's ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet’. （Barrack-room Ballads （1892））．］

类似拼写词

twain num. 两；二；两个

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词源

"Old English twegen, masculine of twā （see TWO）."