| 词汇 | affection |
| 释义 | affection noun uk /əˈfek.ʃən/ us /əˈfek.ʃən/ B2[ U or S ] a feeling of liking for a person or place: 喜爱;钟爱;挚爱 She felt no affection for the child.她一点都不疼爱这个孩子。 He had a deep affection for his aunt.他非常喜爱他的姑妈。 Synonyms fondness tenderness(GENTLE) warmth(FEELING) affections[ plural ] feelings of liking or love: 钟爱之情，爱慕;爱情 The former president still holds a place in the nation's affections.前总统仍深得全国人民的爱戴。 win someone's affections to succeed in persuading someone to love you: 赢得（某人的）爱 Since his divorce, he has been suspicious of women who try to win his affections. There's never much display of affection between them. filial affection He finds it difficult to show affection.他发现表达爱意很难。 In this society there is a taboo on any sort of public display of affection. He remembered the teachers at his first school with great affection. Liking adorkable appreciate approve of someone attached be a glutton for somethingidiom be a hit with someoneidiom dig grow on someone hatefully have a lot of time for someoneidiom have a thing about something/someoneidiom lick your lipsidiom shook smile smile on something/someone smitten soft corner taste tight warm affection | American Dictionaryaffection noun[ C/U ] us/əˈfek·ʃən/ a feeling of liking someone or something: [ U ]Pets should be treated with affection. [ U ]Harriet felt great affection for him. Examples of affectionaffection Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth. The natural tendency of man to attach upwards through local affections was turned on its head. To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. They are part of the rhetoric of the affections, of persuasio; the feelings involved are those of the listeners and do not necessarily always coincide with those in the song. Significantly, when he describes the "social passions" (listed as "generosity, humanity, kindness, compassion, mutual friendship and esteem, all the social and benevolent affections"), his principal examples are of the family. Industry, in a great measure, depends on property; and a much greater blessing depends on it, which is the gratification of the most dignified natural affections. Without law and order we should all be savages, undiscriminating in our casual affections, violent in our revenges, and philistine in our attitude to art and science alike. Here, supernatural agents, through their surrogates and instruments, manifest themselves in people's affections. When his funds are exhausted, so are the young lady's affections. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think a wild rabbit is so fastidious in its affections that it would devote its attention only to another wild rabbit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not our very demand a proof of that confidence and a tribute of our affections? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is only a short period, and there are the solicitations of the girl's relatives and the suasion of his own affections for the girl. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The same remark would apply to certain skin affections and infections from which troops on active service are particularly inclined to suffer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are encouraging us to accept responsibility and to abandon our personal and party prejudices and partial affections. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any shipyard worker is capable of transferring his affections from the shipbuilding industry to the ship-repairing industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of affection These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withaffectionaffectionThese are words often used in combination with affection. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. bond of affection To take this step will not halt progress in ecumenical dialogue, bonds of affection and common action for human betterment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 deep affection Whilst acknowledging the flaws of both parents' characters, the book is nevertheless written with wit and humour, as well as deepaffection. display of affection In such cases the open displayofaffection was 'feigned' (krtaka). These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with affection |
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