英和和英

動詞

couple up (三人称単数 現在形 couples up, 現在分詞 coupling up, 過去形および過去分詞形 coupled up)

1. (transitive) To put into a couple; to put into, or connect together as, a group of two.
   • 1892, Congressional Serial Set (page 492)

     It is utterly impossible for any factory in the United States to couple up 8,000 feet of hose within ten hours unless they had thirty or forty men on and have the couplings made, […]

2. (intransitive) To get into pairs; to become a group of two.
   • 1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:

     By contrast, lesbians are sexually sedate. They don’t cruise sex clubs. They couple up and stay coupled, and they like cuddling and hugging more than they do serious, genitally-based sex.