big brother

参见：Big Brother

英语

名词

big brother (复数 big brothers)

1. (常儿童用语) 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. (比喻义) 相比较的事物中较大的一个
   • 2019 October, Roger Ford, “WCP award - victory for DfT reactionaries”, 出自 Modern Railways，第 32 页:

     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的另一种写法

参见

• big sister
• little brother
• little sister