I even worked on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska a couple of summers while I was an undergraduate.
当我还是个大学生的时候，我甚至在阿拉斯加的一艘商业渔船上工作了好几个夏天。
Let's focus on a a couple of interesting points in this example.
让我们着重于本实例中的几个有趣的点上。
Marianne got a couple of mugs from the cupboard and popped a teabag into each of them.
玛丽安娜从碗柜中拿出了几个杯子，把茶袋迅速地放入每个杯子中。
A couple of these magnificent birds swoop above us during a zodiac tour of the fjord.
在十二宫的峡湾之旅中，几只华丽的鸟儿从我们头顶飞过。
On one of the dirty buff-colored walls were a couple of shelves, containing in all perhaps a dozen bottles and jars.
在肮脏的浅黄色墙上嵌着几个架子，上面摆放着一打瓶瓶罐罐。
Today's methods of birth control make it possible for a couple to choose whether or not to have a child.
如今的节育措施使一对夫妇可以选择是否要生育孩子。
We walked uptown a couple of blocks until we found a cab.
我们向市郊走了好几条街才找到一辆出租车。
She had written him a note a couple of weeks earlier.
两周前她曾给他写过一张便条。
Home for a couple of years was a studio apartment.
几年来的家就是一个单间公寓。
I'll be with you in a minute. There are a couple of things I have to do first.
我一会儿就到你那里去。我有几件事情得先处理一下。
Why don't we saddle a couple of horses and go for a ride?
为什么我们不给几匹马配上鞍骑着转转？
I watched a couple of cops put a clamp on a green Mercedes.
我看到几个警察给一辆绿色奔驰车加上丹佛锁扣。
I had a monumental run-in with him a couple of years ago.
我几年前和他大吵过一场。
My personal life was terrible. My mother had died, and a couple of years later I had a breakdown.
我的个人生活糟透了。母亲去世了,几年后我精神崩溃了。
They grow to a height of 12 in. – give or take a couple of inches.
它们能长到12英寸高–误差不超过2英寸。
The author proposes a couple of reasons why a happy person might improve the health of his lover.
作者提出了几个理由来解释为什么一个快乐的人可能会改善他的爱人的健康状况。
When I was researching this for a study a few years ago, I visited a couple of these typical limestone caves, and they were all very wet, you know, from streams and rivers.
几年前我做这项研究时，我探访了其中几个比较典型的洞穴，它们都很潮湿，你们也知道这是因为小溪和河流的缘故。
He spent a few months in Fairfield a couple of years ago and he pointed us in the direction of your website.
几年前他曾在费尔菲尔德待过几个月，他给我们推荐了你们的网站。
The very first reading that you're going to be doing is a couple of pages from Jay Rosenberg, a contemporary philosopher.
你们首先要阅读的是当代哲学家杰·罗森伯格所写的文章。
I live next door to a couple whose children often make a lot of noise.
我住在一对夫妇的隔壁，他们的孩子经常发出很多噪音。
I've been looking for a nice leather jacket for a couple of months in this city,
我已经在这个城市花好几个月的时间找一件不错的皮夹克了。
The other big ticket this season is "A Steady Rain", a taut play by Keith Huff about a couple of tough Chicago cops with a tragic story to tell.
本季的另一个高价票剧目是《连绵之雨》，这是一部紧张、由导演基思赫夫（KeithHuff）创作的独幕剧，关于两个坚强的有着悲惨经历的芝加哥警察的故事。
Say, for example, there is a drought for a couple of decades, or hunters are killing five percent of the population, and so on.
比如说，有一场持续了几十年的干旱，或者猎人捕杀了物种的5%，等等。
I've started taking lessons at a small academy just a couple of streets away from my house.
我开始在离我家几条街的一家小型学院上课。
Some of you may enjoy doing crossword puzzles and perhaps doing crossword puzzles a couple of hours a day is enjoyable.
你们之中可能有些人爱玩填字游戏，也许一天玩几小时的填字游戏是令人愉快的。
I was admitted by a man servant, and shown into a sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting.
一个男仆允许我进门，把我领进了一间豪华的房间，里面坐着两位上了年纪的绅士。
Potter and Injun Joe were carrying a handbarrow with a rope and a couple of shovels on it.
波特和印第安·乔推着一辆手推车，车上有一条绳子和两把铁锹。
A couple of recent papers have finally opened a window on these people's extraordinary minds.
最近，一些学术论文终于揭开了这些人非凡记忆力的冰山一角。
They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest wellbeing.
他们发现花很少时间玩电子设备的青少年——每周一两个小时——幸福感最高。
But today we're expecting a lot of people to want to see the Crocodile Cave as a couple of eggs have hatched out.
但我们今天预计有很多人想去参观鳄鱼洞，因为已经孵出了一些鳄鱼蛋。
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