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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- affair [ə 'fεr] [ə 'fεə]
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noun
[复数形态时]事态；事务；业务
- The President once was in charge of the foreign affairs.
- 这位总统曾负责外交事务。
- While I was working for that company, I had to deal with consumer affairs.
- 就职于那家公司时，我要处理和客户的关系事宜。
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2.
noun
事，事情
- Stop meddling in my affairs, it's not your business.
- 别再管我的闲事，这不关你的事儿。
- How to solve this situation is only my affair, please don't advise me anymore.
- 如何应对这种情况是我自己的事情，拜托你不用再给我任何建议。
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3.
noun
事件，事变
- The Boots affair contributed in the damaging of the company's image.
- 靴子事件进一步损害了公司形象。
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4.
noun
东西
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5.
noun
（不正常的）恋爱事件；私通；风流韵事
- I've never had any kind of an affair with married women.
- 我从未与已婚女士有任何的暧昧关系。
- Everyone apart from me have love affairs.
- 除了我以外，每个人都恋爱了。
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noun
臭名昭著的事件
- The way she handled that affair has been strongly criticized by everybody.
- 她解决那件事情的方法，受到了每一个人的强烈谴责。
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noun
社交活动（或集会）
- Somebody advised me not to go to the party, probably it will be a very quiet and boring affair.
- 有人建议我不要去参加那个晚会，因为这可能是个单调无聊的场合。
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1.
noun
[复数形态时]事态；事务；业务
Collins English-English Dictionary
- affair [ə'fεə]
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n
a thing to be done or attended to; matter; business
- this affair must be cleared up
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2.
n
an event or happening
- a strange affair
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3.
n
[qualified by an adjective or descriptive phrase]
something previously specified, esp a man-made object; thing
- our house is a tumbledown affair
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4.
n
a sexual relationship between two people who are not married to each other
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5.
n
See also affairs
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n
[Etymology]
C13: from Old French, from à faire to do
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7.
n
a love affair
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n
a love affair
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9.
n
an affair of the heart; love affair
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10.
n
a duel
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1.
n
a thing to be done or attended to; matter; business
Examples
- an air of mystery surrounding the affair
- 笼罩着这事件的神秘气氛 → mystery
- How to solve this situation is only my affair, please don't advise me anymore.
- 如何应对这种情况是我自己的事情，拜托你不用再给我任何建议。 → affair
- The Boots affair contributed in the damaging of the company's image.
- 靴子事件进一步损害了公司形象。 → affair
- The way she handled that affair has been strongly criticized by everybody.
- 她解决那件事情的方法，受到了每一个人的强烈谴责。 → affair
- I've never had any kind of an affair with married women.
- 我从未与已婚女士有任何的暧昧关系。 → affair
- You'll have a new love affair soon, don't worry.
- 别担心，你很快就会有一个新的恋情。
- Somebody advised me not to go to the party, probably it will be a very quiet and boring affair.
- 有人建议我不要去参加那个晚会，因为这可能是个单调无聊的场合。 → affair
- She was wearing an old silk Chinese style affair.
- 她穿了一件过时的中式丝绸衣服。
- The affair is in sure hands.
- 这件事肯定万无一失。 → sure
- The authority expressed their knowledge of the affair.
- 当局表明已获悉此事。 → knowledge
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