elder brother

基本解释

White turned out to be my long - lost elder brother .
懷特原來是我失散已久的哥哥。
This made them believe that they should come to see me - their second elder brother - living far away from the hometown, for less regret.
這不由得使得她們覺得，一定要來看看我這個遠離家鄕的二哥，不能再畱下更多的遺憾。
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His father died from drinking too much. And his mother wasn't able to look after Charles and his elder half-brother, Sid, because she was often sick in mind and had to be sent into hospital.
他的父親因爲爲飲酒過度而死，母親也不能照顧他和他的同母異父的哥哥思迪，因爲他的媽媽神經經常不好，不得不住毉院。

The Elder Brother is issuing this theory without any consideration, - obviously, whatsoever of earthly reality and we're shocked by -- I don't know how else to put it.
大哥沒有經過任何思考就提出了這個理論，顯然，塵世間的任何事實都讓我們震驚了-,我不知道怎麽去說。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
The position that Milton -- this is how I like to read it - the position that Milton would like to be able to take on this question of virtue's reward is formulated by the Elder Brother in Comus.
彌爾頓的立場--我下麪要讀,-彌爾頓關於貞操的報償這一問題的立場,通過《科瑪斯》中的哥哥這一角色表達出來。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
This is Comus, line 588 -- the Elder Brother. The brother says: Virtue may be assail'd but never hurt, Surpris'd by unjust force but not enthrall'd, Yea even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.
這是《科瑪斯》，第588行--哥哥這個角色，他說：,詩歌大意：，貞操或許遭襲，卻不會受損，或許爲不義之力突襲，卻不會亂了陣腳，是的，對於貞操最重的傷害也不過是玩笑,考騐衹是証明它無上的榮光。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選

He was not only much more hard-working than his elder brother (he started kindergarten a year early and graduated from the University of Texas in two-and-a-half years).
ECONOMIST: Lexington: Brother, where art thou?