Affection
[ə'fekʃ(ə)n] or [ə'fɛkʃən]
解释:
(noun.) a positive feeling of liking; 'he had trouble expressing the affection he felt'; 'the child won everyone's heart'; 'the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home'.
手打:利奥波德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
(n.) An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies.
(n.) Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.
(n.) A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children.
(n.) Prejudice; bias.
(n.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection.
(n.) The lively representation of any emotion.
(n.) Affectation.
(n.) Passion; violent emotion.
手打:马吉
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Feeling, passion, inclination, propensity, bent, bias, turn of mind, cast or frame of mind.[2]. Attribute, quality, property, accident, modification, mode.[3]. Love, heart, attachment, kindness, partiality, fondness, liking, tenderness, endearment, regard, good-will, tender passion.[4]. (Med.) Disorder, malady, disease.
约翰娜编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Influence, condition, state, inclination, bent, mood, humor, feeling, love,desire, propensity
ANT:Insensibility, indifference, repugnance, disaffection, repulsion
埃斯特尔校对
解释:
n. kindness or love: attachment: (Shak.) affectation: an attribute or property: a disposition of mind: a disease or abnormal state of body or mind.—adjs. Affec′tional; Affec′tionate full of affection: loving: (obs.) eager passionate well inclined to; Affec′tionated (obs.).—adv. Affec′tionately.—n. Affec′tionateness.—adj. Affec′tioned (B.) affected disposed: (Shak.) full of affectation.
凯瑟琳编辑
例句:
- It would be difficult to find a human being less likely to arouse affection. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I don't even blame you--I pity you for opening your heart to a hopeless affection. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Where affection is reciprocal and sincere, and minds are harmonious, marriage _must_ be happy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The honest face, so full of grief, and with such an imploring expression of affection and sympathy, struck his master. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- He had never a gleam of religion or affection or the sense of duty. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There was no gratitude for affection past or present to make her better bear with its excesses to the others. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- The affection, which he had been asking to be allowed to create, if he could, was already his! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Surely, surely, said he; a lonely man like me, who has no sistermust be but too glad to find in some woman's heart a sister's pure affection. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- But they have known me much longer than you have, and the confiding eye of affection is not the distrustful eye of business. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Shame seemed to hold him back; yet he evidently wished to establish a renewal of confidence and affection. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Emma turned round to look at her in consternation, and hastily said, Have you any idea of Mr. Knightley's returning your affection? 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- No; he was quite sure that she was an ideal woman, so therefore worshipped her—unseen, unheard—with all the chivalrous affection of a medi?val knight. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Will you be able to have no affection for him when he is gone, poor castaway, gone? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I don't doubt you any longer, said Dorothea, putting out her hand; a vague fear for him impelling her unutterable affection. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- No, indeed,' replied his mother; 'you have, or I mistake, too strong a hold on her affections already. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The State is all-sufficing for the wants of man, and, like the idea of the Church in later ages, absorbs all other desires and affections. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- His affections are, I believe, at this moment, divided between a Mrs. Bang, a Mrs. Patten and a Mrs. Pancrass, all ladies of Covent Garden notoriety. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I mean, that human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- There must be no trifling with HER affections, poor dear. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Who are you, that you are to play with two young people's affections and break their hearts at your will? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I began to think that Penelope might be right about the state of her young lady's affections, after all. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- My affections are wounded; it is impossible to heal them:--cease then the vain endeavour, if indeed that way your endeavours tend. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Of her affections and of the forms which she takes in this present life I think that we have now said enough. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- If that handsome face, that fine figure, that smooth tongue, cannot win the affections of a woman, nothing else will. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- None of the direct affections seem to merit our particular attention, except hope and fear, which we shall here endeavour to account for. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- The tenor, therefore, of their affections and feelings, must have borne the same general proportion to our own. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
手打:斯蒂芬