pair off

英 [peə(r) ɒf]

美 [per ɔːf]

（使）成对儿，（使）成双（常指成为恋人）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB-RECIP-ERG （使）成对儿，（使）成双（常指成为恋人）
  When peoplepair offorare paired off, they form a pair, often in order to become girlfriend and boyfriend.
  1. I knew she wouldn't be able to resist pairing me off with someone...
     我知道她忍不住要将我和某人撮合到一块儿。
  2. The squad members paired off to find places to eat and sleep.
     小组成员结对儿找地方吃饭睡觉。

英英释义

verb

• form a pair or pairs
  1. The two old friends paired off
  Synonym:pairpartner offcouple

双语例句

• An annual freshman icebreaker called "Dickerella," in which women and men pair off for trips to a local burger Joint named Dick's, has become a farce.
  一年一度使新生气氛活跃的活动叫“迪克莱拉”，在活动中男女生配成对一起到当地一个汉堡包快餐店去就餐，这项活动已经成了滑稽的事。
• These rare love birds pair off wing to wing and sing joyously.
  这些稀有的情鸟往往是并翅成双成对地边飞边引吭歌唱。
• Lo and behold, there was something thematterwith the great clock; and a workman on a pair of steps had taken its face off, and was poking instruments into the works by the light of a candle!
  哎哟，你看，大钟出了点什么事，一位站在梯子上的工人已把钟面卸下，现在正借着一支烛光，把工具戳进机械中去！
• And psychologists say ambitious younger women are also becoming less likely to pair off with someone significantly older than them.
  同时，事业上春风得意的年轻女子也开始不愿意找年长许多的男人。
• He follows them to the corner of the building, then sees them accompanied by a larger pair of footprints heading off into the desert.
  他跟真它来到了房子的角上，之后看到了它跟着一个大脚印进入了沙漠。
• The disadvantage of class B operation is a large amount of "crossover distortion", which occurs when one tube of the push-pull pair cuts off and the other turns on.
  的缺点B级操作大量的“交越失真”，这发生在一个管推挽对切断和其他打开。
• He tried to pair me off with his sister.
  他极力想要我与他的妹妹拍拖。
• They found that if isolated from the opposite sex, same sex birds will pair off with each other.
  他们发现，在与异性隔离的情况之下，同性的鸟类将会与彼此结成伴侣。
• When each of them has a pair of jeans, they are off like birds on the wing.
  当他们都有了一条牛仔裤的时候，他们就像飞着的鸟一样跑远了。
• Rangers and volunteers from Yosemite Search and Rescue were told that a pair of BASE jumpers were missing off Taft Point.
  巡护员们和从优胜美地搜救组织来的志愿者们被告知有两位定点跳伞者在塔夫点下失踪。