英汉词典

sister 基本解释

• n. 姐妹；（称志同道合者）姐妹；修女；护士
• adj. 姐妹般的；同类型的

sister 词态变化

sister 中文词源

来自中古英语 sister,来自古英语 sweoster,姐妹，修女，来自 Proto-Germanic*swester,姐妹，来 自 PIE*swesor,姐妹，可能来自 PIE*swe,自己的，词源同 self,-sor,姐妹，来自 PIE*es-ro,血， 词源同 sanguine,sorority.拼写可能受表阴性格后缀-ster 影响俗化，如 spinster,纺纱女。

sister 英文词源

sister

sister: [OE] Sister is one of a widespread family of ‘sister’-words that go back ultimately to Indo- European *swesor. Amongst its other descendants are Latin soror (source of French soeur, Italian sorella, and Romanian sora, not to mention English sorority [16]), Russian, Czech, and Serbo-Croat sestra, Polish siostra, Welsh chwaer, Breton c’hoar, Lithuanian sesuo, and Sanskrit svasar-. To prehistoric Germanic it contributed *swestr, which has evolved into German schwester, Dutch zuster, Swedish syster, Danish søster, and English sister. English cousin goes back ultimately to a compound based on *swesor, the Old Latin antecedent of soror.
=> sorority

sister (n.)

mid-13c., from Old English sweostor, swuster "sister," or a Scandinavian cognate (Old Norse systir, Swedish syster, Danish søster), in either case from Proto-Germanic *swestr- (cognates: Old Saxon swestar, Old Frisian swester, Middle Dutch suster, Dutch zuster, Old High German swester, German Schwester, Gothic swistar).

These are from PIE *swesor, one of the most persistent and unchanging PIE root words, recognizable in almost every modern Indo-European language (Sanskrit svasar-, Avestan shanhar-, Latin soror, Old Church Slavonic, Russian sestra, Lithuanian sesuo, Old Irish siur, Welsh chwaer, Greek eor). French soeur "a sister" (11c., instead of *sereur) is directly from Latin soror, a rare case of a borrowing from the nominative case.

According to Klein's sources, probably from PIE roots *swe- "one's own" + *ser- "woman." For vowel evolution, see bury. Used of nuns in Old English; of a woman in general from 1906; of a black woman from 1926; and in the sense of "fellow feminist" from 1912. Meaning "female fellow-Christian" is from mid-15c. Sister act "variety act by two or more sisters" is from vaudeville (1908).

sister 英文释义

1. a female person who has the same parents as another person;

"my sister married a musician"

2. a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group;

"none of her sisters would betray her"

3. sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women

sister 双语例句

1. My sister needed an escort for a company dinner.

我妹妹需要一个陪她参加公司晚宴的男伴。

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2. He had very little in common with his sister.

他和姐姐几乎没有什么共同语言。

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3. Ray and sister Renee lived just 25 miles apart from each other.

雷和妹妹勒妮的住处仅相隔25英里。

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4. Sister Francesca entered the chapel, took her seat, and promptly fell asleep.

弗朗西丝卡修女走进小教堂，坐下来，很快就睡着了。

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5. Sister Morrison might take issue with me on that matter.

莫里森修女在那件事上或许会和我持不同意见。

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sister 实用场景例句

She's my sister.

她是我姐姐。

牛津词典

an older/younger sister

姐姐；妹妹

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(informal)a big/little/kid sister

大姐；小妹；年幼的妹妹

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We're sisters.

我们是姐妹。

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Do you have any brothers or sisters ?

你有兄弟姐妹吗？

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My best friend has been like a sister to me (= very close) .

我最要好的一个朋友待我亲如姐妹。

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They supported their sisters in the dispute.

在争论中，她们支持自己的姐妹。

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Sister Mary

修女玛丽

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the Sisters of Charity

仁爱修女会

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our sister company in Italy

我们在意大利的姊妹公司

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a sister ship

同一类型的船

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His sister Sarah helped him.

他姐姐萨拉帮助了他。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...Vanessa Bell, the sister of Virginia Woolf...

弗吉尼娅·伍尔夫的姐姐瓦妮莎·贝尔

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Sister Francesca entered the chapel.

弗朗西丝卡修女走进了小教堂。

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...the Hospice of the Sisters of Charity at Lourdes.

卢尔德仁爱修女会的安养院

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Ask to speak to the sister on the ward...

请求和病房里的护士长说话。

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Sister Middleton followed the coffee trolley.

护士长米德尔顿跟在送咖啡的推车后面。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Modern woman has been freed from many of the duties that befell her sisters in times past.

现代女性已经从许多压在旧时女性身上的责任中解放出来了。

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...our Jewish brothers and sisters.

我们犹太教的兄弟姐妹们

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

国际货币基金组织及其姊妹机构——世界银行

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...Voyager 2 and its sister ship, Voyager 1.

“旅行者 2 号”太空探测器及其姊妹探测器——“旅行者 1 号”

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He was engaged to my sister.

他和我妹妹订婚了.

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She differs from her sister in the color of her eyes.

她与她姐姐眼睛的颜色不同.

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My sister gave me a book.

姐姐送我一本书.

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