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- sister [ 'sɪstɚ] [ 'sɪstə]
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- 1. noun 姐妹
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2.
noun
同父异母（或同母异父）姐妹
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3.
noun
继父与其前妻（或继母与其前夫）的女儿
- 4. noun 女友
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5.
noun
女同事；女会员
- 6. noun 尼姑；修女
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7.
noun
相同类型的东西
- sister ships
- 姐妹船
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8.
noun
[England]
护士（尤指护士长）
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9.
noun
[verbal]
女士，小姐（多用于称呼）
- Can you help me sister?
- 大姐，能帮帮我吗？
- 10. adjective 姐妹般的；极相似的
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11.
noun
[slang]
（女性）朋友（原为黑社会用语；有时也作一种称谓）
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12.
noun
[slang]
妇女联谊会成员
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13.
noun
[slang]
女性主义者
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14.
noun
[slang]
黑人的女性黑人朋友（参见sister）
Collins English-English Dictionary
- sister ['sɪstə]
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1.
n
a female person having the same parents as another person
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2.
n
See half-sister stepsister
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3.
n
a female person who belongs to the same group, trade union, etc, as another or others
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4.
n
[informal]
a form of address to a woman or girl, used esp by Black people in the US
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5.
n
a senior nurse
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6.
n
[chiefly RC Church]
a nun or a title given to a nun
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7.
n
a woman fellow member of a Church or religious body
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8.
n
[modifier]
belonging to the same class, fleet, etc, as another or others
- a sister ship
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9.
n
[modifier]
[biology]
denoting any of the cells or cell components formed by division of a parent cell or cell component
- sister nuclei
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10.
n
[Etymology]
Old English sweostor; related to Old Norse systir, Old High German swester, Gothic swistar
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1.
n
a female person having the same parents as another person
Examples
- his big sister
- 他的姐姐 → big
- my kid sister
- 我的小妹妹
- his sister, or rather, stepsister
- 他的妹妹，或更确切地说，他的异父妹妹 → rather
- sister ships
- 姐妹船 → sister
- the kid sister
- 小妹妹 → the
- a twin sister
- 孪生姐(或妹) → twin
- In "John or Bob may go, but their sister may not.", "or" and "but" are disjunctive conjunctions.
- 在“John or Bob may go, but their sister may not.”句中，“or”和“but”是转折(或分离)连接词。 → disjunctive
- She talked her sister through the process a step at a time.
- 她跟姐姐详细讨论了每个细节。
- There is my sister!
- 那是我姐姐！
- She is very shy compared with her sister.
- 和姐姐相比，她比较害羞。
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