couldn't

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈkʊd.ənt]
• 美式音标 [ˈkʊd.ənt]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• v. 不能（等于could not）

同根派生

• couldn't相关词

英汉例句

双语例句

• She couldn't erase the terrible experience from her memory.
  她无法把那次可怕的经历从记忆中抹去。
• They couldn't prevent our defending the rights of the workers.
  他们不能阻挠我们捍卫工人的权利。
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• The channel had chocked up with sand so that boats couldn't use it.
  航道被沙土淤积堵塞，因此船舶不能使用它了。

原声例句

• But I couldn't find you and I was afraid he would sell the cask of Amontillado to someone else.
• It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.
  这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。
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• You know, I couldn't invite a hundred people and buy them all shoes, you know, to my daughter's birthday party, so
  我不会请一百个人来参加我女儿的生日聚会，还给他们每人买双鞋，所以，
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权威例句

• The difference being that, even if you knew somebody, you couldn't get a room in Shreveport.
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词组短语

短语

• couldn 't help 禁不住；不得不
• couldn n 't love another 不可能再爱另一个人了
• Couldn 't all 说不出的种种
• I couldn 't 我做不到

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• short form of could not

柯林斯英英字典

• Couldn't is the usual spoken form of "could not." (could not)

• couldn't剑桥字典
• couldn't柯林斯字典