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词汇 dear
释义 dear
adjective
uk /dɪər/ us /dɪr/

dearadjective (LOVED)


B2
loved or liked very much: 亲爱的,心爱的;可爱的
She was a very dear friend.她是一位非常亲密的朋友。
dear toHe was very dear to me.他是我非常亲近的人。
This place is very dear to me - we came here on our honeymoon.这个地方对我来讲非常亲切——我们曾到这里度过蜜月。
What a dear (= very attractive) little kitten!多么可爱的小猫啊!
my dearMy dear Gina - how nice to see you!我亲爱的吉娜——见到你真是太好了!
A1
used at the beginning of a letter to greet the person you are writing to: (用于信的开头作问候语)亲爱的,尊敬的
Dear Kerry/Mum and Dad/Ms Smith/Sir亲爱的克里/爸爸妈妈/史密斯女士/尊敬的先生
We will always remember our dear departed friends.我们将永远怀念那些故去的好友。
In loving memory of my dear husband, who departed this life on 5 May, 1978.
My dear daughter arranged this whole holiday for me.
Emily is such a dear, kind person - she would never hurt anyone.
Look what those dear boys have bought me for my birthday!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Loving and in love
absence
absence makes the heart grow fonderidiom
adoration
adore
adoring
adoringly
adorkable
dotty
endearment
ever-loving
fall for someone
fall in loveidiom
loving
loving-kindness
lovingly
lurve
madly
steal
sweep
young loveidiom

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Written greetings

dearadjective (EXPENSIVE)


mainly UKcomparativedearer | superlativedearest
costing too much: 昂贵的,高价的
The food was good but very dear.这儿的饭菜不错,就是太贵。
Synonym
expensive
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

costing a lot of money
expensiveHe thinks he's special with his expensive suits and fancy shoes.
dearUKI find the veg too dear in that supermarket.
costlyThey made several costly mistakes, including spending $60 million on shoddy machinery.
priceyThe restaurants in town are a bit pricey.
exclusiveThey have an apartment in an exclusive part of town.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Costing too much
bottomless pit
capital intensive
cheap
cheap at half the priceidiom
cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
cost someone a pretty pennyidiom
cost someone dearidiom
costliness
daylight robbery
exorbitant
gouge
outprice
overcharge
pretty
price fixing
price someone out
price yourself out of the marketidiom
prohibitively
sight
sky-high

Idiom


for dear life
dear
exclamation
 informaluk /dɪər/ us /dɪr/(also old-fashioneddearie)
A2
used in expressions of anger, disappointment, sadness, or surprise: 天哪(表示恼怒、失望、伤心、吃惊等)
oh dear Oh dear! I've lost my keys again.哦,天哪!我又把钥匙弄丢了。
dear me Dear me, it's already 4.30 and I said I'd be home by 5.00!天哪,已经4点半了,我说过我5点前要到家的!
Dearie me, what a mess!天哪,真是太乱了!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: interjections
aiyo
attaboy
attagirl
auf Wiedersehen
aw shucks
doctor
eat your heart outidiom
figure
guess
lordy
marry
mazel tov
more
more power to your elbow!idiom
roll
yoicks
yoink
you know something?idiom
you should have seen/heard something/someoneidiom
you the man!idiom
dear
noun
uk /dɪər/ us /dɪr/
[ Cusually singular ]informal
a kind person: 善良的人,和善之人,好人
Annie's such a dear - she's brought me breakfast in bed every morning this week.安妮可真是个大好人——这周她每天早上都把早饭送到我的床边。
[ as form of address ]
used to address someone you love or are being friendly to, not used between men: 亲爱的(亲切友好的称呼,不用于男子之间)
Here's your receipt, dear.亲爱的,这是你的收据。
Would you like a drink, dear?亲爱的,你想喝一杯吗?
my dearLovely to see you, my dear.亲爱的,见到你真是太好了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People having good qualities
advertisement
altruist
angel
beatify
brick
bunch
gem
hidden depths
jewel
mensch
not be as black as you are paintedidiom
paragon
peach
poppet
rough diamond
saint
salt of the earthidiom
softie
sweetheart
treasure

dear | American Dictionary


dear
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/dɪər/

dearadjective[-er/-est only] (LOVED)


loved or greatly liked:
She’s a dear friend.
Dear is used at the beginning of a letter to greet the person you are writing to:
Dear Kerrie/Mom and Dad/Ms. Smith/Sir
Dearest can be used in a letter to greet someone you love:
Dearest Ben, I think of you every day.
dear
exclamation
 infmlus/dɪər/

dearexclamation (EXPRESSION)


used to express annoyance, disappointment, unhappiness, or surprise:
Oh dear! I’ve lost my keys again.
dear
noun[ C ]
us/dɪr/

dearnoun[C] (LOVED PERSON)


a person who is loved or greatly liked:
Annie’s such a dear.
Dear is used to address someone in a friendly way, esp. someone you love or a child:
Have something to eat, dear.

dear | Business English


dear
adjective
UKuk /dɪər/us
expensive:
Tourist restaurants are too dear for the locals.
 cost sb dear
to cause someone to have a lot problems or to lose a lot of money:
The Government's lack of knowledge about IT systems has undoubtedly cost it dear.

Examples of dear


dear
They haven't a clue that they are doing so, poor dears, but that doesn't destroy the fact that they are.
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The poor old dears in the fixed income group are disappointed in the party opposite.
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There is no precedent whatever for instructing an authority—an authority, mark you—to do all that it can to secure, poor dears.
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There is a great mistake which one often dears in talking about scientific teaching.
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I ask myself what the poor dears have done wrong.
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We should not fool ourselves into believing that these old people are delightful dears that one wants to be with all the time.
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Dearing made it clear that university research infrastructure had been allowed to run down.
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I think that dears that point.
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I suppose that parents like them because they want somewhere where they can get rid of the little dears for a few hours and a playgroup will do.
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Dearing feared that, if the student contribution was raised by the abolition of maintenance grant, the money might never reach the higher education institutions at all.
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Dearing identified a funding gap of £8 billion.
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Dearing looked studiously at the problem.
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Dearing recommended that, in the forthcoming financial year, an additional £350 million should be put into universities and, in the following year, the figure should be £565 million.
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She rejects his advances unless he destroys the things dearest to him: a tower he has inherited and his favourite falcon.
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The land is the dearest thing that we have.
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