A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
夫妇
Couple
Coupled sheep drown one another.
偶合的羊互相淹死。
The guy gets a couple of hits and he starts popping off.
这个人被打了几次，然后他就开始弹起来。
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
我在海上做了几年石油工人。
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
聋子夫妻永远是幸福的一对。
The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.
开始几天的排毒饮食并不愉快。
I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
我只在感恩节喝过几口酒。
I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.
我从剧院回来，每隔几年就回去一次。
And I have a couple swimsuit calendars I did that are coming out.
我有几本我做的泳装日历即将出版。
I made a couple bad pitches, but I'll take this and build off it.
我投了几个很差的球，但我会把这个球补上。
To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?
要成为一对，你必须把你的单身放在架子上吗?
I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
我几年前才加入甲壳虫乐队，你知道，我喜欢它。
To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
打几个推杆就能赢得大师赛是一种美妙的感觉。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.
如果我向一个方向移动，就会失去一些选票。如果我换一种方式，我会失去一些选票。
We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff.
我们正在与索尼公司会面，我们有几家其他的唱片公司突然对我们产生了兴趣，这真的很棒，因为他们都没有真正听过我们的东西。
I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.
我和几个朋友组成了一个家庭学校小组。我们不再去别人家，也不再去图书馆做艺术之类的事情。这就像我们自己的一所小学校——一所非常小的学校。
I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.
我一生中只滑过几次雪。任何滑雪者都会说我臭。
I couldn't wait for Friday and Saturday to come around. When you're in good shape, you want to race all the time, because when you peak, it's only for a couple weeks.
我等不及星期五和星期六的到来了。当你处于良好的状态时，你想要一直比赛，因为当你达到顶峰时，只有几周的时间。
I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.
我先考虑所有的事情。我思考场景:故事和人物，我想说的，我会思考几天，直到一切都被锁定，然后当我拿起一个乐器，它就会掉出来。但是这首歌已经在我的脑海里准备好了。