twin
要点双生児の一人
意味
- 双生児の一人;《複数形で》双生児,ふたご
- よく似た人(物)の片方;《複数形で》対
- ふたごの;対の
- 〈ある都市〉を(…と)姉妹関係にする《+名+with+名》
例文
The twin sisters are alike as two peas in a pod.
その双子の姉妹はうりふたつだ。
The twins are indistinguishable from each other.
その双子は見分けがつかない。
I recalled a newspaper story about those twins.
私はその双子についての新聞記事を思い出させた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twinne, twynne, from Old English ġetwin, ġetwinn (“twin, multiple”, noun) and twinn (“twin, two-fold, double, two by two”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *twinaz (“double/two each, twin”), Proto-Germanic *twinjaz, *twīhnaz (“two each”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwino- (“twin”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Scots twyn (“twin”), Dutch tweeling (“twin”), German Zwilling (“twin”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tvilling (“twin”), Faroese tvinnur (“a double set”), Icelandic tvenna (“duo, pair”), Lithuanian dvynys (“twin”), Russian двойня (dvojnja, “twin”).