英语释义

• a pair of people who live together;

  "a married couple from Chicago"

片语

chief mate大副（等于chief officer）

Paper mates纸张搭配

soul mate情人；性情相投的人；心心相印的伙伴

running mate（美）竞选伙伴

Running Mates（美）竞选伙伴

meshing mates啮合副

mate with使紧密配合

Assembly Mates装配配合

apron mates表演队

call mates呼召笛号

Good Mates优秀配偶

Follower Mates凸轮推桿配合

英汉例句

• so it has been proposed that blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women as mates because they have some degree of certainty over fatherhood.

  所以通常认为蓝眼睛男性优先选择蓝眼睛女性作为配偶是因为可以在一定程度上保证父亲的身份。

• because their mates were getting back first, they were getting back quickest.

  由于他们的队友都第一个回去，他们回去的最快。

• they also attempt to compete with other males by poaching mates for brief affairs.

  他们也试图通过「狩猎」艳遇伴侣来和其他男性一较短长。

• and then there are the people who say that cooperation doesn「t come from god — that cooperation evolved from our need to take care of family or show potential mates that we were a good choice.

  然后，还有人说，合作不是来自上帝 。合作的发展是因为我们需要照顾家庭，或向潜在的配偶表明，我们是一个挺不错的选择。

• mr. fisher: (unintelligible) works. because their mates were getting back first, they were getting back quickest. say, oh, what did you do? how did you do that?

  fisher先生：（不知所云）好像行得通。由于他们的队友都第一个回去，他们回去的最快。说，哦，你怎么这么快？你是怎么做到的？

• i believe what they say. but i also know that if i were to ask those same men and women to describe their mothers, there would be many similarities between their ideal mates and their moms.

  我相信他们的回答，但是我明白如果我要求同样的男男女女描述一下他们的母亲，发现他们理想中的伴侣与他们的母亲有许多相似之处。

• by implication, therefore, they have fitter bodies over all, at least in the darwinian sense of fitness, namely the ability to survive, to attract mates and to produce offspring.

  因此，这些实验说明，这些人比其他人有着更为健康的身体，至少对达尔文的健康概念如此，也就是说他们拥有生存、吸引配偶以及生儿育女的能力。

• suddenly i realized it was the time of year for foals to drop, and the big males were merely protecting their mates and babies.

  这时，我才突然地意识到现在是小驴仔降生的季节，公驴们只是在保护他们的配偶和幼兽。

• because understanding what drives us to select mates helps scientists learn more about our reproductive habits.

  搞清楚促使我们选择伴侣的原因能帮助科学家了解更多关于我们的习惯。

• soul mates can even develop the same afflictions over time—a condition in one spouse often places the other at increased risk for the same disorder.

  灵魂伴侣甚至会随着时间的推移传给对方同样的病痛，就是一方的状况往往会增加对方患上同样疾病的概率。

• if there are fewer potential mates around, men may delay marriage or forgo it entirely, losing out on these nuptial niceties.

  如果周围有极少潜在的伴侣，男人会推迟甚至放弃结婚，遗失这种婚礼的美好。

• vervet monkeys at the top of their social tree enjoy more mates and bananas as a result, but they also exult in their position for its own sake.

  在社会树顶部的黑脸猴结果享有更多的配偶和香蕉，但它们也会为了自己的地位而欢欣鼓舞。

• despite all these bonuses, the hot guys are more likely to cheat on their mates while hot women aren」t.

  尽管有这么多「奖赏」，可「辣男」却更可能欺骗他们的配偶，而这种情况却很少发生在女性身上。