affair
美 [əˈfer]
英 [əˈfeə(r)] 
- n.事件;事情;风流韵事;公共事务
- 网络绯闻;私通;恋爱事件
词形变化
复数:affairs 同义词
英汉双解
公共╱政治活动public/political activities
1. | [pl] 公共事务;政治事务events that are of public interest or political importance |
| world/international/business affairs 世界╱国际╱商业事务 |
| an expert on foreign affairs(= political events in other countries) 外事专家 |
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事件event
2. | [c][ususing] 事件;事情an event that people are talking about or describing in a particular way |
| The newspapers exaggerated the whole affair wildly. 报章毫无根据地夸大了整个事件。 |
| The debate was a pretty disappointing affair. 那次辩论使人颇感失望。 |
| She wanted the celebration to be a simple family affair . 她希望庆祝活动仅限于家人参加。 |
关系relationship
3. | [c] (尤指已婚男女的)私通,风流韵事a sexual relationship between two people, usually when one or both of them are married to sb else |
| She is having an affair with her boss. 她跟老板有暧昧关系。 |
私人业务private business
4. | [pl] 私人业务matters connected with a person's private business and financial situation |
| I looked after my father's financial affairs. 我照管父亲的财务。 |
| She wanted to put her affairs in order before she died. 她想在去世前把自己的事务安排妥当。 |
5. | [sing] 个人的事a thing that sb is responsible for (and that other people should not be concerned with) |
| How I spend my money is my affair. 我如何用钱是我自己的事。 |
物品object
6. | [c] 不寻常之物;难描述的东西an object that is unusual or difficult to describe |
| Her hat was an amazing affair with feathers and a huge brim. 她的帽子嵌着羽毛,帽檐很宽,真是件奇物。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
The affair has put a spotlight on Mr Cameron's circle of friends and his judgement, but so far calls for his resignation are not widespread.
此次窃听丑闻曝光了卡梅伦的朋友圈和他的判断能力。但到目前为止,要求他辞职的呼声并不普遍。
Having found out that his wife had an affair with another man, the poor man wanted to kill himself.
那个可怜的男人由于发现他的妻子与另一个男子有私情而想自杀。
She indicated no curiosity in the woman who had carried on an affair with her husband for more than a year and then murdered him.
她显得对这个跟她丈夫有过一年多风流韵事后谋杀了他的女人没有任何好奇。
PHP has always had something of a love affair with the popular open source relational database management system (RDBMS) known as MySQL.
PHP与流行的开放源代码关系数据库管理系统(RDBMS)MySQL之间总是很有默契。
from the country for her affair with officers of the enemy.
她因与敌人军官的风流事而被驱赶出了村庄。
One day we ended up in bed, and that was the beginning of our affair.
终于有一天我们上了床,开始了这段缘分。
If arrived one end, the affair still could not solve, that also can explain that I really judgment by destiny to have no penny with him.
若是到了最后,事情仍然无法解决,那也只能说明我和他真的有缘无分。
Mr. Godfrey made an effort, and came out with a new version of the affair.
高孚利先生搜索枯肠,终于想出一种新的说法。
Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away.
对于此事,温普尔一点也不知道,鸡蛋按时交付,每周都由一辆食品车来庄园拉一次。
He was apparently content to let a rumour circulate that he had dropped out of circulation in shame over a homosexual affair.
而且他显然很乐意散布这种谣言:他已因耻于同性恋事件而退出社交圈。
What's clear is that whatever love affair many Americans may have had with stocks is over, at least for the moment.
但显而易见的是,无论许多美国人以前对股票多麽浓情蜜意,这种“情意”已不复存在,至少目前是。
All the lodgers in the house knew something of the affair; details had been invented by some.
公寓里的房客对这件风流韵事多少都有耳闻,有的人对细节还添油加醋。
When he knew his wife had an affair with others, he flew off the handle.
当他得知妻子有外遇时,他勃然大怒。
Our "small antelope" has always been in anger with the affair of your slinkingly leave, at least he is when talking of this matter with me.
小羚羊一直在为你偷偷走的事情赌气,至少他在和我说起这件事时是这样的。
Although American literature has revealed certain fairly permanent trends, it has not been a static affair.
美国文学虽然显示了某些较持久的趋势,它并不是静止的。
It was not to be expected that Miss Ley would explain before making the affair a good deal more complicated.
由于莱伊小姐以前没能说明这件事,因此使事情变得很不好理解了。
Plucking these morsels from their habitat, however, is often a violent affair that destroys other denizens of the deep.
然而,从海底捞出这些佳肴通常却会对其他海底生物带来暴力的破坏。
Istanbul was a bit of a freaky game. Do you think this one is going to revert back to the dour old English-Italian one-goal-in-it affair?
伊斯坦布尔决赛有点偏离常规。你认为这一次将恢复到保守的英格兰-大利式一球决胜?
She might have been away with Summerville, he might have wanted to have an affair with her.
她或许会和索姆威勒一起走,他也许想要和她发生关系。
Berlusconi said the affair was the result of "media criminality" .
贝鲁斯科尼说这一事件是“媒体作恶”的结果。
I have certainly meant well through the whole affair.
我对于这事始终是一片好心好意。
He had gone about the whole affair wrongly.
他这桩事完全做错了。
"Yes, my dear, a very different affair from this house. This is very bourgeois. "
“是的,亲爱的,它跟这种房子完全不是一回事。这种房子太平庸了。”
How I spend my money is my affair.
我如何用钱是我自己的事。
"This is a very dark affair, " he said, "and I advise you to forget all about it. "
“这件事非常秘密,”他说,“我劝你千万别再提它了。”
Mr. Roosevelt invited me to join him at dinner in his villa. "Let us make it a family affair, " he said.
罗斯福先生邀请我到他的别墅参加晚餐。他说:“让我们来举行一次家宴。”
It was not to be expected that Miss Ley would explain before making the affair a good deal more complicated.
由于莱伊小姐以前没能说明这件事,因此使事情变得很不好理解了。
He gave me a great account of the whole affair.
他把情况原原来来都对我讲了。
There was nothing unusual about this affair of the blinds, for Ruston and Misery robbed everybody.
像百叶窗之类的事件是经常发生的,因为拉什顿和瘟神对所有人都要掠夺。
He dared say he would want all his money before he had done with this affair of June's.
把琼这件婚事办完,敢说要用到他的全部现款。
Her hat was an amazing affair with feathers and a huge brim.
她的帽子嵌着羽毛,帽檐很宽,真是件奇物。
The banker administered the affair of the bank.
银行家掌管行务。
She wanted the celebration to be a simple family affair .
她希望庆祝活动仅限于家人参加。
Thus Roosevelt, with Danials's vital help, turned the expropriation affair to the advantage of the people of the United States.
就是这样,罗斯福总统在丹尼尔斯必不可少的帮助下,将没收事件变成对美国人民有利的事情。
I thought it proper to adjourn all further proceedings in this affair, in order to consult with you.
臣以为必须暂缓审理有关案件,以便向陛下求教。
That would be a different affair.
那就另当别论了。
The thing had become a neighborhood affair.
这件事成了邻里中的一件大事。
He was altogether above the respectable average; quite another affair.
他大大高出于普通人之上,全然与众不同。
If we know who he was we would get to the bottom of the whole affair.
只要我们知道了他是谁,整个事情就水落石出了。
I hope you'll stay out of the affair while I'm away.
我外出时,希望你不要插手这事。
On the whole, the campaign was a drab affair.
总的来说,这次选举单调乏味。
This latter curtain was quite an affair.
后面这重幕可真漂亮。
Well, he got a job in Washington after that, and he and Mom had a wild two-year affair.
喏,后来他在华盛顿有了工作,他和妈妈就在那两年里做出了一些荒唐事儿。
The headmaster was very displeased about the whole affair.
校长对整个事件感到很不高兴。
The wood wears to suddenly feel some embarrassments in the orchid center, seem to have what essential affair be disregarded at oneself.
木佩兰心中忽然觉得有些不安,似乎有什么重要的事情被自己忽略了。
Because of your good sense of timing and taste, you are usually able to get what you want physically in a love affair.
因为在节奏和品味方面的良好感觉,在爱情中你通常能满足生理上的任何需求。
It was because he had made a serious affair of an idle matter, by thinking of it as if it were of any consequence.
这是由于他把一桩不关紧要的小事看得太严重,以为会产生很大影响的缘故。
Afterwards, Mr. Liu reproved his wife for provoking all his sister's pent-up resentment by bringing up the Kunming matchmaking affair.
事后,刘先生怪太太不该提起昆明做媒的事,触动她一肚子的怨气。
Breaking off their affair had never sat right with him; now he would take care of her for the rest of her life.
断绝他们的关系从来就没使他感觉好受过;现在他将要照顾她的余生了。
He had never considered it his affair that a soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, nor had it appeared to him as a matter for sorrow.
他从来没有认为一个军团战士在阿尔及尔慢慢死去是他的事,也从来没有感到这是一件令其哀伤的事。
Since the top of the sun also has black mark, the affair of human life more impossibly has no blemish.
既然太阳上也有黑点,人世间的事情就更不可能没有缺陷。
Sir Robert Chiltern : The affair to which you allude was no more than a speculation.
主席先生罗伯特奇尔特恩:这件事您提到只不过是猜测。
This was more than just a system of distribution and sales; it was a cultural as well as economic affair.
这已经超越了分发和销售的体系;这是一种文化的体现和经济事件。
Maybe it was just a little affair for that auntie, but for me, it was a big thing.
也许对于那个阿姨来说,这只是小事一桩,但对于我来说,这绝不是小事。
They start arguing when she tells him to put out his cigarette and complains about an affair he is supposedly having.
他们启动辩论她告诉他灭掉他的香烟并且抱怨他的一事件根据推测什么时候。
Children also said it was justified for a husband to be violent towards his wife if she had an affair.
孩子们还说,如果妻子有外遇,丈夫对她实行暴力是正当的。
Mr. Smith has had an affair. Mrs. Smith, devastated, seems to be the hapless victim.
当时,史密斯先生有了一桩外遇,而史密斯夫人对此极为震惊,她似乎是一位无辜的受害者。
The affair, which has been made very public within the company, seems to have done no damage to him but has devastated me.
这桩恋情已搞得全公司尽人皆知,看上去并没给CEO造成任何损害,但却让我灰头土脸。
As nothing less than control of the federal government was at stake, the convention was a bitter affair from the beginning.
由于控制联邦政府的斗争处于生死攸关的时刻,大会从一开始就是一场苦战。
Russell Crowe made it a family affair as he got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday.
罗素。克罗使其成为家庭的事情时,他得到了他的好莱坞星光大道上的昨天。
But uprooting is often a haphazard affair, usually affecting those who cannot bribe the eradication teams to pass over their plots.
但根绝罂粟常常成了随意之事,通常会影响那些无法通过贿赂根除罂粟团队而忽略其属地之人。
it was an informal affair , rather like a gathering of a large and happy family.
舞会就象一个幸福的大家庭的团聚,是不拘礼节的聚会。
This was the place where a man had once taken an axe and hacked his wife to death in a jealous rage over an alleged affair.
这里曾发生一起命案:一件未确定的事情引起了丈夫嫉恨的怒火,于是他用斧头将妻子砍死了。
Then St. Peter asked the second man if he had been faithful to his wife, and the man admitted to one affair. St.
然后圣彼得问第二个人他这一生是否忠诚于他的妻子,这个人承认他有一次出轨。