Affair
[ə'feə] or [ə'fɛr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a vaguely specified social event; 'the party was quite an affair'; 'an occasion arranged to honor the president'; 'a seemingly endless round of social functions'.
(noun.) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.
編輯:鲁弗斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius.
(n.) Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.
(n.) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
(n.) Action; endeavor.
(n.) A material object (vaguely designated).
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Business, concern, matter, circumstance, question, subject.[2]. Event, occurrence, incident, transaction, proceeding, performance.[3]. Battle, engagement, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, rencontre, collision, skirmish, brush.
編輯:普鲁登斯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Matter, business, concern, subject, topic, transaction
ANT:Detail, item, point, feature, circumstance
整理:马提
解釋/意思:
n. that which is to be done: business: any small matter: a battle of minor importance: a matter of intimate personal concern as a duel—a so-called affair of honour or an intrigue: (pl.) transactions in general: public concerns.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Jo went and sat on one arm of the chair, looking as if she thought they were about to join in some very solemn affair. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- There will be no difficulty about this affair, Alexandros? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I really see no prospect of throwing any light whatever on this extraordinary affair. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You had a love affair all summer and got this girl with child and now I suppose you'll sneak off. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- A strange affair! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In this affair, as in every other, Little Dorrit herself was the last person considered. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the affair. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I never understood it from Aunt Shaw; I only knew he could not come back to England because of that terrible affair. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- But I think I have the key of the affair now. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The house in Yorkshire was associated with the scandalous affair of the lost Moonstone. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The whole of this doctrine leads us to a conclusion, which is of great importance in the present affair, viz. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- But it is not merely this affair, she continued, on which my dislike is founded. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- In what state the affair stood at present between them, Edward knew not, for no communication with any of his family had yet been attempted by him. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It seems to have been a very deliberate affair. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- You are a far more competent judge of such affairs than I am. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Consols; for so it was that Becky felt the Vanity of human affairs, and it was in those securities that she would have liked to cast anchor. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Because, there is always such a thing as an adjustment of affairs, in the case of people of any standing at all. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Of course he understands his own affairs. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- We have already told something of the first appearance of the free intelligence, the spirit of inquiry and plain statement, in human affairs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Don't you think you might find some affairs there, ma'am, to interfere with? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- He opposed the existing state of affairs on the ground that it formed neither the citizen nor the man. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Too often the pupil comes out with a smattering which is too superficial to be scientific and too technical to be applicable to ordinary affairs. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The miserable poor devils knew all about his affairs. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This led him to review the existing state of affairs (1780) and to compare it with the state of affairs during the decline of imperial Rome. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I didn't know,' remarked Mr Fledgeby, trying a new part of his chair, 'but that Lammle might be reserved about his affairs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Miss Hale, I would rather not hear Mr. Lennox's opinion of my affairs. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- All of this is very reminiscent of the religious and political state of affairs in Greece fourteen centuries earlier. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But to suppose that the remedy lies in waiting for monographs from the research of the laboratory is to have lost a sense of the rhythm of actual affairs. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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