affair

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

affair的意思是“事,事情,事務(wù)”,含義很廣,可指已經(jīng)發(fā)生的、所關(guān)心的或必須做的任何事情。
affair的復(fù)數(shù)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(wù)。口語中affair(單數(shù))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(shí)指“男女之間的事”,類似于漢語中的“那事兒”。多指不正當(dāng)男女關(guān)系,也可指正常戀愛。
affair的復(fù)數(shù)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(shí)指“l(fā)ove-affair”，即“風(fēng)流韻事”。He has had an affair with the girl.
下列表達(dá)方式中用affairs，復(fù)數(shù)形式：foreign affairs (外交事務(wù))，his financial affairs (他的經(jīng)濟(jì)情況），your own affairs (你自己的事情）。

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.

事務(wù)
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(duì)這些數(shù)據(jù)進(jìn)行簡單的事務(wù)管理和信息檢索，而期望從數(shù)據(jù)中獲取知識(shí)來輔助決策。
心理學(xué)
事情