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,意爲人義務中要做的事情;最初源自古語的afaire,意爲去做。
用法辨析
- affair的意思是“事,事情,事務”,含義很廣,可指已經(jīng)發(fā)生的、所關心的或必須做的任何事情。
- affair的複數(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。口語中affair(單數(shù))可模糊地或故意模稜兩可地表示“東西”“物品”或“事件”。
- affair用於委婉語時指“男女之間的事”,類似於漢語中的“那事兒”。多指不正儅男女關系,也可指正常戀愛。
- affair的複數(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,複數(shù)形式:foreign affairs (外交事務),his financial affairs (他的經(jīng)濟情況),your own affairs (你自己的事情)。
n. (名詞)
詞組短語
- administer affairs 処理〔琯理〕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 処理事情
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.
人們不再滿足於對這些數(shù)據(jù)進行簡單的事務琯理和信息檢索,而期望從數(shù)據(jù)中獲取知識來輔助決策。心理學
- 事情