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  • Conjugation : past  loved ; pp  loved ; ing  loving
  • Derivatives : n  lover ; adj  loving ; adj  lovely
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

love [l^v]
  1. 1. noun [u] (for partner, sweetheart) 爱情
  2. 2. noun (for child, pet) 爱
    my love for my children
    我对孩子的爱
  3. 3. noun [BRIT] [inf] (term of address) 对不相识者的客气称呼
    Are you OK, love?
    没事吧?
  4. 4. vt. [+partner, child, pet]
    I love you.
    我爱你。
  5. 5. vt. [+thing, food, activity] 热爱
    sb's love for sb
    某人某人的爱
    to be in love (with sb)
    (与某人)恋爱
    to fall in love (with sb)
    爱上(某人)
    to make love
    做爱
    love at first sight
    一见钟情
    love (from) Anne
    爱你的,安妮
    to send one's love to sb
    某人问候
    a love of music/football/animals
    音乐/足球/动物的热爱
    "15 love"
    [网球] 15比0
    to love doing/to do sth
    喜爱做某事
    I'd love to come
    非常想来
    I'd love you to come {or} I'd love it if you came
    要是真是太好了
  6. 6. vt. 用法参见 nought

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

love [lʌv] [lʌv]
  1. 1. noun
    Human beings, not only children, need to be shown lots of love.
    单单是对孩子,对每个人都要显示出极大的爱心
  2. 2. noun 问候致意
    Give Mary my love.
    代我问候玛丽
  3. 3. noun 友爱友好
  4. 4. noun 爱好喜爱
    a love of music
    音乐的爱好
    They don't share his love for animals.
    他们不像他那样喜欢动物
  5. 5. noun 喜爱事物
    Yoga is one of my greatest loves.
    瑜伽我的一大爱好
  6. 6. noun 恋爱爱情
  7. 7. noun 情人爱人
    She lost the love of her life in that accident.
    她在那次事故痛失至爱
  8. 8. noun 性欲
  9. 9. noun 性交
  10. 10. noun [Love]爱神
  11. 11. noun [rarely used] [Love]维纳斯(爱和美女神
  12. 12. noun [tennis] 零分
    The final score was seven-love.
    最后比分为七比零。
  13. 13. noun [theology] 上帝慈爱慈悲
  14. 14. noun [theology] 上帝敬慕崇敬
  15. 15. vt. 爱;热爱爱戴
    She loves all her children.
    她爱自己所有儿女
  16. 16. vt. 抚爱
  17. 17. vt. 喜欢喜好
    to love books
    喜欢(读)书
  18. 18. vt. 喜爱
    a plant that loves shade
    喜阴处的植物
    Women love chocolate.
    女性巧克力情有独钟
  19. 19. vi. 爱,恋爱

Collins English-English Dictionary

love [l^v]
  1. 1. vt. [tr] to have a great attachment to and affection for
  2. 2. n my love a beloved person: used esp as an endearment
  3. 3. vt. [tr] to have passionate desire, longing, and feelings for
  4. 4. vt. [tr] to like or desire (to do something) very much
  5. 5. vt. [tr] to make love to
  6. 6. vi. [intr] to be in love
  7. 7. n an intense emotion of affection, warmth, fondness, and regard towards a person or thing
  8. 8. n (as modifier)
    love song
    love story
  9. 9. n a deep feeling of sexual attraction and desire
  10. 10. n wholehearted liking for or pleasure in something
  11. 11. n [Christianity] God's benevolent attitude towards man
  12. 12. n man's attitude of reverent devotion towards God
  13. 13. n [Brit] [informal] a term of address, esp but not necessarily for a person regarded as likable
  14. 14. n (in tennis, squash, etc) a score of zero
  15. 15. n [Etymology] Old English lufu; related to Old High German luba; compare also Latin libere (originally lubere) to please

Examples

Love me as I do (love) you.
像我爱你那样地爱我。 do
I'd love you to come {or} I'd love it if you came
你要是来真是太好了 love
all-embracing love
博爱 all-embracing
ardent love
强烈的爱 ardent
choose between love and duty
在爱情与尽责间做取舍 between
blind love
盲目恋爱 blind
chain of love
爱情的羁绊 chain
The word "mother" means “female parent,” but it generally connotes love, care, tenderness,etc.
“mother”一词意为“母亲”,但它总含有慈爱、关怀和温柔等意义。 connote
tolerance in contradistinction to love
与爱截然不同的宽恕 contradistinction
the course of true love
真正爱情的发展进程 course

nciku Note

love is blind 爱情是盲目的

love is blind She's so wrong for him! Love is blind , he doesn't see her faults. “love is blind”即爱情是盲目的,爱人的眼里看不到对方的缺点,正所谓“情人眼里出西施”。 The term "love is blind" means a person in love does not see the faults of the person he/she loves.

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