a couple

It only lasted a couple of years, as far as I know.

据我所知，它仅仅维持了两三年。

Dave, the pianist, played it over a couple of times.

演奏钢琴的戴夫将这支曲子反复弹了两三遍。

He thumbed through a couple of pages, feigning just a slight interest.

他随手翻了几页，假装兴趣不大。

They are a couple in the real world as well as in the movie.

他们在电影和现实生活中都是一对夫妇。

I saw a couple of men get out.

我看见有两个男人出去了。

A couple of teenagers were kissing and cuddling on the doorstep.

一对年轻人在门阶上亲吻拥抱。

More recently the term has come to be used to describe a vacation taken by a couple that is expecting a baby in order to allow the couple to enjoy a final trip together before the many sleepless nights that usually accompany a newborn baby.

后来，这个词又用来指代即将为人父母的夫妻在孩子出生之前享受的最后一次二人之旅，即“产前蜜月”或“孕期蜜月”。孩子出生以后等待他们的将是无数个无眠之夜。

Mason went home for a couple of hours' kip.

梅森回家睡了几个小时。

Before you know it, a couple of minutes has turned into a couple of hours and you haven't written a thing.

在你发觉之前，已经过去了几小时，而不是几分钟，而你的论文还没动笔。

We went there a couple of years ago.

我们几年前去过那里。

I've seen her a couple of times before.

我以前见过她几次。

As a couple they are not very well matched.

作为夫妻，他们并不十分般配。

He placed the ball and tried a couple of feints.

他把球放好，试着虚打了几下。

A Successful Relationship A boy was born to a couple after 11 years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the apple of their eye.

一对夫妇在婚后十一年生了一个男孩，夫妻恩爱，男孩自然是二人的宝贝。

He managed to rustle up a couple of blankets.

他很快想办法弄到了几张毯子。

I think I can play maybe for a couple more years.

我想也许我还能再打两年球。

There are a couple more files to read first.

还有几份档案要先看一看。

The company has bankrolled a couple of local movies.

这家公司已经资助了当地好几部电影。

She already has a couple of good wins under her belt.

她已将几项冠军收入囊中。

He was a couple of months over-age for the youth team.

他年龄大了几个月，进不了青年队。

They pretend to be an absent couple in order to grab a reservation at a trendy restaurant, and two hit men assume they are that couple and topple them into a screwball comedy.

为了抢得一家时髦餐馆里的预定位置，菲尔和克莱尔冒充了一对订位后却没来的夫妇，而两名杀手以为他俩就是订位的夫妇，因此使他俩卷入了一场神经喜剧。

A couple of inches of dry, powdery snow had fallen.

下了数英寸厚的粉状干雪。

I had a monumental run-in with him a couple of years ago.

几年前，我和他大吵了一架。

We kept her afloat for a couple of hours by bailing frantically.

我们拼命往外舀水，使它继续漂浮了几个小时。

Suffice to say, it was more than a couple of years ago!

我只想说，那是几年前的事了！

The company employs no more than a couple of dozen people.

这个公司顶多雇用了几十个人。

I'm broke, Livy, and I owe a couple of million dollars.

我破产了，莉薇，而且我欠了几百万美元的债。

A couple consisting of only two vectors is called a simple couple.

仅由两个矢量组成的力偶叫作简单力偶.

I'll pick up on what I said a couple of minutes ago.

我将回到几分钟前我说过的内容。

I used to smoke, but I gave up a couple of years ago.

我以前抽烟，但几年前就戒掉了。