pair off
英 [peə(r) ɒf]
美 [per ɔːf]
(使)成对儿,(使)成双(常指成为恋人)
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB-RECIP-ERG (使)成对儿,(使)成双(常指成为恋人)
When peoplepair offorare paired off, they form a pair, often in order to become girlfriend and boyfriend.- I knew she wouldn't be able to resist pairing me off with someone...
我知道她忍不住要将我和某人撮合到一块儿。 - The squad members paired off to find places to eat and sleep.
小组成员结对儿找地方吃饭睡觉。
- I knew she wouldn't be able to resist pairing me off with someone...
英英释义
verb
- form a pair or pairs
- The two old friends paired off
双语例句
- I suppose Mr Lin will pair off with Miss Wang in the end.
我料想到头来林先生总会和王小姐结成夫妇。 - The queen felt cold steel slide beneath her, a pair of great armored arms lifting her off the ground, lifting her up into the air as easily as she had lifted Joffrey when he was still a babe.
太后感觉到冰冷的钢铁滑到她身下,一双装甲的巨大手臂环绕身下抱起了她,非常轻松地将她举向空中,就像乔佛里还是婴儿时她抱他一样。 - An annual freshman icebreaker called "Dickerella," in which women and men pair off for trips to a local burger Joint named Dick's, has become a farce.
一年一度使新生气氛活跃的活动叫“迪克莱拉”,在活动中男女生配成对一起到当地一个汉堡包快餐店去就餐,这项活动已经成了滑稽的事。 - He tried to pair me off with his sister.
他极力想要我与他的妹妹拍拖。 - But at weekends we would pair off.
但是在周末我们可能成双成对的出去。 - Everyone at CFI is hopingthey don't turn out to be the same sex so they can pair off.
CFI的每位成员都希望这几条镖鲈的性别查证结果显示它们不是同性,这样就可以让它们配对繁殖。 - Rangers and volunteers from Yosemite Search and Rescue were told that a pair of BASE jumpers were missing off Taft Point.
巡护员们和从优胜美地搜救组织来的志愿者们被告知有两位定点跳伞者在塔夫点下失踪。 - The pair called off their first wedding in Cyprus in2008 because Nicky's brother and sister did not want to take their babies abroad.
2008年,因为妮奇的兄弟姐妹不愿意把自己的孩子带出国,这对准新人被迫取消了婚礼。 - Lo and behold, there was something thematterwith the great clock; and a workman on a pair of steps had taken its face off, and was poking instruments into the works by the light of a candle!
哎哟,你看,大钟出了点什么事,一位站在梯子上的工人已把钟面卸下,现在正借着一支烛光,把工具戳进机械中去! - They found that if isolated from the opposite sex, same sex birds will pair off with each other.
他们发现,在与异性隔离的情况之下,同性的鸟类将会与彼此结成伴侣。