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brothers / younger brother / CL: 個|个 / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal
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elder brother
senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher
internecine strife (idiom); fighting among oneself
brothers / comrades / men / brethren
elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
fraternity
fellow apprentices; fellow students (male)
brothers / comrade
father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin
lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom) / fig. one is just as bad as the other
brothers in hardship (idiom) / fellow sufferers / in the same boat
twin brothers
male cousins via female line
sworn brothers
elder brother
older male second cousin
father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch
elder brother and his wife
Your esteemed older brother (honorific)
all men are brothers
senior partner in sworn brotherhood
elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
lit. older brother / fig. fellow students who are successful in the imperial examinations
older male patrilineal cousin
sworn brother
(polite) my elder brother
brother(s) and sister(s)
wife's older brother
senior fellow student
husband of wife's older sister
eldest brother
older male cousin via female line
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
older stepbrother
(coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle)
brothers and sisters / siblings
Lehman Brothers, investment bank
internal disunity dissolves at the threat of an invasion from outside (idiom)
even with your own brother, keep clear accounts (idiom)
brother (polite appellation for a friend one's age)
sibling
Warner Brothers
(honorific written address) My dear friend
step-siblings
twin brothers


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