sister

1. N-COUNT Your sister is a girl or woman who has the same parents as you. 姐; 妹[oft poss N]

His sister Sarah helped him. 他姐姐薩拉幫助了他。

...Vanessa Bell, the sister of Virginia Woolf. …弗吉尼亞·伍爾夫的姐姐瓦內莎·貝爾。

2. →see also half sister , stepsister

3. N-COUNT/N-TITLE/N-VOC Sister is a title given to a woman who belongs to a religious community. 脩女

Sister Francesca entered the chapel. 弗朗西絲卡脩女走進小教堂。

4. N-COUNT You can describe a woman as your sister if you feel a connection with her, for example, because she belongs to the same race, religion, country, or profession. 姐妹 (對同種族、宗教、國家，或職業(yè)女性的親切說法); 女同胞

Modern woman has been freed from many of the duties that befell her sisters in times past. 現(xiàn)代女性已從舊時代姐妹們肩負的許多責任中解放出來了。

5. ADJ You can use sister to describe something that is of the same type or is connected in some way to another thing you have mentioned. For example, if a company has a sister company, they are connected. 同類型的; 姐妹般的[ADJ n]

...the International Monetary Fund and its sister organization, the World Bank. …國際貨幣基金組織和它的姐妹機搆，世界銀行。