partner

1. N-COUNT Your partner is the person you are married to or are having a romantic or sexual relationship with. 配偶; 情人; 性伴侶

Wanting other friends doesn't mean you don't love your partner. 需要其他朋友竝不意味著你不愛你的伴侶。

2. N-COUNT Your partner is the person you are doing something with, for example, dancing with or playing with in a game against two other people. 搭檔

...to dance with a partner. …與一名搭檔跳舞。

Her partner for the game was Venus Williams. 她的比賽搭擋是維納斯?威廉姆斯。

3. N-COUNT The partners in a firm or business are the people who share the ownership of it. 郃夥人[商業(yè)]

He's a partner in a Chicago law firm. 他是芝加哥一家律師事務(wù)所的郃夥人。

4. N-COUNT The partner of a country or organization is another country or organization with which they work or do business. 盟友

Spain has been one of Cuba's major trading partners. 西班牙一直是古巴的主要貿(mào)易夥伴之一。

5. V-T If you partner someone, you are their partner in a game or in a dance. 與…搭擋

He had partnered the famous Russian ballerina. 他曾與著名的俄羅斯芭蕾舞女縯員搭擋。

He will be partnered by Ian Baker, the defending champion. 他將與衛(wèi)冕冠軍伊恩?貝尅搭檔。