sister

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n. 姐妹, 姐, 妹, 护士, 修女 vt. 姐妹般对待

发音

UK /ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/
US /ˈsɪs.tɚ/
US

词形变化

sisters 复数 sisters sistren sistren 复数 sistered sistering sisters 三单 sistering 现在分词 sistered 过去式 sistered 过去分词

别名

seester sis sista sistah sistuh Sr sustah suster

教材释义与例句

名词

姐妹；（称志同道合者）姐妹；修女；护士

a girl or woman who has the same parents as you

Janet and Abby are sisters.

珍妮特和阿比是两姐妹。

He has two sisters and a brother.

他有两个姊妹和一个弟弟。

She's my twin sister .

她是我的孪生妹妹。

...the International Monetary Fund and its sister organization, the World Bank.

…国际货币基金组织和它的姐妹机构，世界银行。

释义与例句

n. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.

    My sister is always driving me crazy.

  2. 2.

    A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.

    Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.

  3. 3.

    Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.

  4. 4.

    A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.

  5. 5.

    Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.

    姐姐

    妹妹

    姊妹

    姐妹

    媭

    家姐

    大姊

    小妹

    阿姊

    阿妹

    Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.

  6. 6.

    A black woman.

    俚语 非裔美国英语
  7. 7.

    A form of address to a woman.

    非正式

    What’s up, sister?

  8. 8.

    A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.

    Thank you, sister. I would like to thank the sister who just spoke.

  9. 9.

    An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.

    定语

    sister publication

    sister city

    sister projects

  10. 10.

    A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.

    计算机 工程 数学
  11. 11.

    Something in the same class.

    定语

    sister ships

    sister facility

  12. 12.

    One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.

v.
  1. 1.

    To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.

    及物 商务 建筑 工程

    I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.

  2. 2.

    To be sister to; to resemble closely.

    废旧 及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

sis

反义词 1

brother

上位词 3

woman member nun

下位词 5

half-sister stepsister beguine big sister little sister

整体词 2

sorority sisterhood

相关短语

sister chromatid [医] 姊妹染色半体 sister city 友好城市 sister ship 姐妹船，姊妹船; 同型船; 姊妹舰 sister company sister companies sister in law 嫂子；姑子 sister cities sister ships [法] 姐妹舰, 同业舰 sister planet sister chromatid cohesion Sister Souljah moment Sister Souljah moments sister clip sister clips sister block

词源

PIE word *swésōr From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”). Doublet of soror. Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”). In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”). The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren. The sense for "Adelpha-genus butterfly" is a semantic loan from translingual Adelpha, itself from Ancient Greek ἀδελφή (adelphḗ, “sister”).

来源：wiktionary