partner

partner
noun
  1. a person who takes part in an undertaking with another or others, especially in a business or firm with shared risks and profits
    合作者；股东，合伙人
    ■either of two people dancing together or playing a game or sport on the same side
    搭档，同伴
    ■either member of a married couple or of an established unmarried couple (often used neutrally to avoid specifying whether a couple is married or not)
    配偶；伴侣（通常用作中性词，以避免明确两人是否已结婚）
    she lived with her partner.
    她与她的伴侣住在一起。
    ■a person with whom one has sex; a lover
    性伴侣；情人
    ■(US datedordialect)a friendly form of address by one man to another
    (美，旧或方)伙计
    how you doing, partner?.
    你好吗，伙计？。
verb
  1. [with obj.]be the partner of
    做…的搭档；使合伙
    young farmers who partnered Isabel to the village dance.
    与伊莎贝尔结伴去参加村里舞会的年轻农夫。
    ■[no obj.](N. Amer.)associate as partners
    (北美)合伙；成为搭档
    I never expected to partner with a man like you.
    我从未期望与一个像你这样的人合作。
派生
partnerless
adjective
语源
  1. Middle English: alteration of parcener 'partner, joint heir', from Anglo-Norman French parcener, based on Latin partitio(n-) 'partition'. The change in the first syllable was due to association with part
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