1. 同輩表親(或堂親);堂兄弟(或姐妹);表兄弟(或姐妹) Your cousin is the child of your uncle or aunt.
e.g. My cousin Mark helped me... 表兄馬克幫了我。 e.g. We are cousins. 我們是表親。
2. 對等物;對等的人;相關(guān)的人(或事物) If you refer to two things or groups of people as cousins, you mean that they are equivalents or that there is a connection between them.
e.g. Whereas West Germans drink wine, their Eastern cousins prefer Schnapps... 西德人喝葡萄酒，而他們東德的兄弟姐妹則喜歡喝杜松子酒。 e.g. The average European kitchen is smaller than its American cousin. 歐式的廚房一般比美式廚房小。