big brother

參見：Big Brother

英語

名詞

big brother (複數 big brothers)

1. (常兒童用語) 哥哥

   If you don't give me back my toys I'll tell my big brother!

   如果你不把我的玩具还给我，我就要告诉我哥哥了！

2. (比喻義) 相比較的事物中較大的一個
   • 2019 October, Roger Ford, “WCP award - victory for DfT reactionaries”, 出自 Modern Railways，頁號 32:

     While the little MTU Vee-12s in the Class 800 bi-mode generating units have lower overall emissions than their big brothers in the Class 43 IC125 power cars, in the case of CO₂, when you burn a litre of diesel fuel you get 2.8kg of CO₂. [a possible error in the original text]

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3. Big Brother的另一種寫法

參見

• big sister
• little brother
• little sister