affair
音標發(fā)音
- 英式音標 [??fe?(r)]
- 美式音標 [?'f?r]
- 國際音標 [?'fε?]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- n. 事情；事務；私事；（尤指關系不長久的）風流韻事
詞源解說
- 14世紀進入英語，直接源自殖英中世紀諾曼底語的afere，意為人義務中要做的事情；最初源自古語的afaire，意為去做。
用法辨析
- affair的意思是“事,事情,事務”,含義很廣,可指已經發(fā)生的、所關心的或必須做的任何事情。
- affair的復數形式(其前不加冠詞)不指許多件事,而指重大的或頭緒較多的事務。口語中affair(單數)可模糊地或故意模棱兩可地表示“東西”“物品”或“事件”。
- affair用于委婉語時指“男女之間的事”,類似于漢語中的“那事兒”。多指不正當男女關系,也可指正常戀愛。
- affair的復數形式affairs常指“情形”或“事態(tài)”，不指“多件事”。He asked me how affairs stood. 注意affairs前沒有the。
- affair有時指“l(fā)ove-affair”，即“風流韻事”。He has had an affair with the girl.
- 下列表達方式中用affairs，復數形式：foreign affairs (外交事務)，his financial affairs (他的經濟情況），your own affairs (你自己的事情）。
n. (名詞)
詞組短語
- administer affairs 處理〔管理〕事務
- arrange affairs 安排事務
- carry on an affair with sb 與某人私通
- close an affair 了結一件事情
- conduct affairs 處理事情
用作名詞 (n.)
動詞+～
英英字典
- (MATTER) a situation or subject that is being dealt with or considered
- (RELATIONSHIP) a sexual relationship, especially a secret one
- (EVENT) an event
- (THING) an object of the type stated
- If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair.
- You can refer to an important or interesting event or situation as "the ... affair."
- You can describe the main quality of an event by saying that it is a particular kind of affair.
- If two people who are not married to each other have an affair, they have a sexual relationship.
- &rarrsee also love affair
- You can use affairs to refer to all the important facts or activities that are connected with a particular subject.
- &rarrsee also current affairs , state of affairs
- Your affairs are all the matters connected with your life that you consider to be private and normally deal with yourself.
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專業(yè)釋義
- 事務
People will not settle for simple affair management and information search on these data, but look forward to gaining knowledge from data to assistant decision-making.
人們不再滿足于對這些數據進行簡單的事務管理和信息檢索，而期望從數據中獲取知識來輔助決策。心理學
- 事情