affair
音标发音
- 英式音标 [əˈfeə(r)]
- 美式音标 [ə'fɛr]
- 国际音标 [ə'fεə]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 事情；事务；私事；（尤指关系不长久的）风流韵事
词源解说
- 14世纪进入英语，直接源自殖英中世纪诺曼底语的afere，意为人义务中要做的事情；最初源自古语的afaire，意为去做。
用法辨析
- affair的意思是“事,事情,事务”,含义很广,可指已经发生的、所关心的或必须做的任何事情。
- affair的复数形式(其前不加冠词)不指许多件事,而指重大的或头绪较多的事务。口语中affair(单数)可模糊地或故意模棱两可地表示“东西”“物品”或“事件”。
- affair用于委婉语时指“男女之间的事”,类似于汉语中的“那事儿”。多指不正当男女关系,也可指正常恋爱。
- affair的复数形式affairs常指“情形”或“事态”，不指“多件事”。He asked me how affairs stood. 注意affairs前没有the。
- affair有时指“love-affair”，即“风流韵事”。He has had an affair with the girl.
- 下列表达方式中用affairs，复数形式：foreign affairs (外交事务)，his financial affairs (他的经济情况），your own affairs (你自己的事情）。
n. (名词)
词组短语
- administer affairs 处理〔管理〕事务
- arrange affairs 安排事务
- carry on an affair with sb 与某人私通
- close an affair 了结一件事情
- conduct affairs 处理事情
用作名词 (n.)
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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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专业释义
- 事务
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.
人们不再满足于对这些数据进行简单的事务管理和信息检索，而期望从数据中获取知识来辅助决策。心理学
- 事情