love
- n.爱;爱情;热爱;喜爱;恋爱;（昵称）亲爱的;慈爱;心爱的人;喜好;零分
- v.爱;喜欢;很喜欢;热爱;喜爱;很愿意
lovenoun
喜爱 affection
爱；热爱；慈爱
a strong feeling of deep affection for sb/sth, especially a member of your family or a friend
a mother's love for her children
母亲对孩子的爱
love of your country
对祖国的热爱
He seems incapable of love.
他好像不会疼爱人。
浪漫 romantic
爱情；恋爱
a strong feeling of affection for sb that you are sexually attracted to
a love song/story
爱情歌曲 / 故事
We're in love !
我们相爱了！
She was in love with him .
她与他相爱了。
They fell in love with each other.
他们彼此相爱了。
It was love at first sight (= they were attracted to each other the first time they met) .
那是一见钟情。
They're madly in love .
他们疯狂地相爱。
Their love grew with the years.
他们的爱逐年加深。
乐趣 enjoyment
喜好；喜爱
the strong feeling of enjoyment that sth gives you
a love of learning
对知识的爱好
He's in love with his work.
他热爱自己的工作。
I fell in love with the house.
我喜欢上了这房子。
所爱的人 / 物 sb/sth you like
心爱的人；钟爱之物；爱好
a person, a thing or an activity that you like very much
Take care, my love.
保重，我的爱人。
He was the love of my life (= the person I loved most) .
他是我一生中最爱的人。
I like most sports but tennis is my first love .
大多数运动我都喜欢，而网球是我的第一爱好。
友好的称呼 friendly name
（昵称）亲爱的
a word used as a friendly way of addressing sb
Can I help you, love?
亲爱的，我能帮你忙吗？
网球 in tennis
零分
a score of zero (points or games)
40–love!
40比0！
She won the first set six–love/six games to love .
她以六比零赢了第一盘。
without receiving payment or any other reward
他们都是义务工作的志愿者。
They're all volunteers, working for the love of it.
used when you are expressing anger and the fact that you are impatient
看在上帝的分上，告诉我他说了些什么！
For the love of God, tell me what he said!
used to send good wishes to sb
见到玛丽代我向她问好。
Give my love to Mary when you see her.
Bob sends his love.
鲍勃向你致意。
used at the end of a letter to a friend or to sb you love, followed by your name
非常爱你的珍妮
Lots of love, Jenny
when you love sb, you cannot see their faults
to have sex
那是他们第一次发生性关系。
It was the first time they had made love.
if you say you cannot do sth for love nor money , you mean it is completely impossible to do it
they do not like each other
她和她的姻亲彼此嫌恶。
There's no love lost between her and her in-laws.
affection that sb, especially a child, shows towards sb else in order to get sth
in some situations any type of behaviour is acceptable to get what you want
loving sb very much
他深深迷恋上了他的上司。
He's fallen head over heels in love with his boss.
a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary
verb
感到爱 feel affection
爱；热爱
to have very strong feelings of affection for sb
I love you.
我爱你。
If you love each other, why not get married?
要是你们彼此相爱，干吗不结婚呢？
Her much-loved brother lay dying of AIDS.
她至爱的兄弟因艾滋病而濒临死亡。
He had become a well-loved member of staff.
他已成为受人喜爱的职员。
Relatives need time to grieve over loved ones they have lost.
亲属需要时间痛悼他们失去的至爱。
to love your country
热爱你的祖国
喜欢；爱好 like/enjoy
喜欢；喜爱
to like or enjoy sth very much
I really love summer evenings.
我非常喜欢夏天的夜晚。
I just love it when you bring me presents!
我就喜欢你送我礼物！
He loved the way she smiled.
他喜欢她微笑的样子。
I love it in Spain (= I like the life there) .
我喜欢西班牙的生活。
It was one of his best-loved songs.
这是他最受喜爱的歌曲之一。
You're going to love this. They've changed their minds again.
你会喜欢的，他们又改变主意了。
My dad loves going to football games.
我父亲爱去看足球赛。
I love to go out dancing.
我喜欢出去跳舞。
He loved her to sing to him.
他喜欢让她唱歌给他听。
很喜欢；很愿意
used to say that you would very much like sth
Come on Rory, the kids would love to hear you sing.
来一首吧，罗里，孩子们都很喜欢听你唱歌。
I haven't been to Brazil, but I'd love to go.
我没去过巴西，但很想去。
I'd love her to come and live with us.
我很愿意让她来和我们住在一起。
‘Cigarette?’ ‘I'd love one, but I've just given up.’
“抽支烟好吗？”“我倒很乐意抽一支，可我刚把烟戒了。”
used to say that you must go, although you would like to stay longer
唉，我该走了，不想走也得走哇。
Well, time to love you and leave you.
These words all mean to have feelings of love or affection for sb.以上各词均含喜爱、爱慕（某人）之义。
to have strong feelings of affection for sb指爱、热爱：
I love you.
我爱你。
to find sb pleasant and enjoy being with them指喜欢、喜爱：
She's nice. I like her.
她人很好，我喜欢她。
to feel affection for sb, especially sb you have known for a long time指喜爱（尤指认识已久的人）：
I've always been very fond of your mother.
我一直非常喜欢你的母亲。
to love sb very much指热爱、爱慕：
It's obvious that she adores him.
她显然深深地爱着他。
to love sb very much and be loyal to them指深爱、忠诚于某人：
They are devoted to their children.
他们深爱着自己的孩子。
to love sb, especially in a way that is based on strong affection or a feeling of wanting to protect them, rather than sex指深深地爱、非常喜欢，但不指性爱：
He cared for her more than she realized.
她不知道他是多么在乎她。
to feel and show great love for sb, ignoring their faults指溺爱、宠爱、过分喜爱：
He dotes on his children.
他溺爱他的孩子。
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VERB 爱；爱慕
If you love someone, you feel romantically or sexually attracted to them, and they are very important to you.Oh, Amy, I love you...
哦，埃米，我爱你。
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N-UNCOUNT 爱情；爱意
Love is a very strong feeling of affection towards someone who you are romantically or sexually attracted to.Our love for each other has been increased by what we've been through together.
我们共同经历了这些风风雨雨后，彼此更加相爱了。
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VERB 疼爱；关爱
You say that you love someone when their happiness is very important to you, so that you behave in a kind and caring way towards them.You'll never love anyone the way you love your baby.
你决不会像疼爱自己的宝宝一样疼爱别人。
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N-UNCOUNT 疼爱；关爱
Love is the feeling that a person's happiness is very important to you, and the way you show this feeling in your behaviour towards them.My love for all my children is unconditional...
我对自己所有孩子的爱都是无条件的。
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VERB 喜欢；喜爱
If you love something, you like it very much.We loved the food so much, especially the fish dishes...
我们很喜欢这些食物，尤其是鱼。
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VERB 热爱；珍爱
You can say that you love something when you consider that it is important and want to protect or support it.I love my country as you love yours.
我热爱我的祖国，就像你热爱你的祖国一样。
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N-UNCOUNT 热爱
Love is a strong liking for something, or a belief that it is important.This is no way to encourage a love of literature...
靠这种办法想激起对文学的热爱是行不通的。
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N-COUNT 爱人；情人；所爱之物
Your love is someone or something that you love.'She is the love of my life,' he said...
“她是我一生所爱，”他说道。
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VERB 乐于；很愿意
If you would love to have or do something, you very much want to have it or do it.I would love to play for England again...
我很乐意再次为英格兰队效力。
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N-VOC （用于昵称）亲爱的
Some people use love as an affectionate way of addressing someone.Well, I'll take your word for it then, love...
唔，那我就信你吧，亲爱的。
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NUM （网球比赛中的）零分
In tennis, love is a score of zero.He beat Thomas Muster of Austria three sets to love.
他3比0直取奥地利的托马斯·蒙斯特。
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CONVENTION （给朋友或亲人写信时结尾具名前的非正式用语）爱你（们）的
You can use expressions such as 'love', 'love from', and 'all my love', followed by your name, as an informal way of ending a letter to a friend or relation....with love from Grandma and Grandpa.
爱你的爷爷、奶奶
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N-UNCOUNT 问候；致意
If you send someone your love, you ask another person, who will soon be speaking or writing to them, to tell them that you are thinking about them with affection.Please give her my love.
请代我问候她。
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See also:-loved;loving;free love;peace-loving;tug-of-love -
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PHRASE 堕入爱河；（与…）相爱
If you fall in love with someone, you start to be in love with them.I fell in love with him because of his kind nature...
我爱上他，是因为他秉性善良。
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PHRASE 喜欢上；喜爱上
If you fall in love with something, you start to like it very much.Working with Ford closely, I fell in love with the cinema.
与福特的密切合作开始令我爱上了电影。
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PHRASE 对…倾心；爱慕；热恋
If you are in love with someone, you feel romantically or sexually attracted to them, and they are very important to you.Laura had never before been in love...
劳拉之前从来没有恋爱过。
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PHRASE 喜欢；喜爱；热爱
If you are in love with something, you like it very much.He had always been in love with the enchanted landscape of the West.
他一向热爱西部的迷人风光。
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PHRASE （…之间）彼此厌恶，水火不容
If you say that there is no love lost between two people or groups or there is little love lost between them, you mean that they do not like each other at all.There was no love lost between the two men who were supposed to be working in harmony on a mounting crisis.
在一场日益严峻的危机面前，本应和睦共处、通力合作的这两个男人却势同水火。
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PHR-RECIP 做爱；性交
When two people make love, they have sex.Have you ever made love to a girl before?...
你和女孩有过云雨之欢吗？
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PHRASE 无论如何（也不…）
If you cannot or will not do something for love or money, you are completely unable to do it or you do not intend to do it.Replacement parts couldn't be found for love or money...
替换零件怎么都找不到。
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PHRASE 一见钟情
Love at first sight is the experience of starting to be in love with someone as soon as you see them for the first time.It was love at first sight, and he proposed to me six weeks later.
我们一见钟情，他6周后就向我求婚了。
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labour of love→ see:labour
noun
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- sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
- his lovemaking disgusted her
- he hadn't had any love in months
- he has a very complicated love life
- Synonym: sexual love lovemaking making love love life
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- any object of warm affection or devotion
- the theater was her first love
- he has a passion for cock fighting
- Synonym: passion
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- a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
- their love left them indifferent to their surroundings
- she was his first love
- Synonym: sexual love erotic love
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- a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
- his love for his work
- children need a lot of love
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- a beloved person;used as terms of endearment
- Synonym: beloved dear dearest honey
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- a score of zero in tennis or squash
- it was 40 love
verb
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- have sexual intercourse with
- This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
- Adam knew Eve
- Were you ever intimate with this man?
- Synonym: sleep together roll in the hay make out make love sleep with get laid have sex know do it be intimate have intercourse have it away have it off screw fuck jazz eff hump lie with bed have a go at it bang get it on bonk
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- have a great affection or liking for
- I love French food
- She loves her boss and works hard for him
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- be enamored or in love with
- She loves her husband deeply
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- get pleasure from
- I love cooking
- Synonym: enjoy
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I expect she does love you in her own way .
我想她的确是以她特有的方式爱你。
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He said he would love her for ever .
他说会永远爱她。
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Well , time to love you and leave you .
唉，我该走了，不想走也得走哇。
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I 'd love to come , only I have to work .
我很想去，但是我要上班。
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I 'd love her to come and live with us .
我很愿意让她来和我们住在一起。
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I like most sports but tennis is my first love .
大多数运动我都喜欢，而网球是我的第一爱好。
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He 's in love with his work .
他热爱自己的工作。
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He was the love of my life .
他是我一生中最爱的人。
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In time she came to love him .
她终于爱上了他。
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I really and truly am in love this time .
我这一次确确实实是恋爱了。
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If you love each other , why not get married ?
要是你们彼此相爱，干吗不结婚呢？
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For the love of God , tell me what he said !
看在上帝的分上，告诉我他说了些什么！
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The word ' love ' is used in different senses by different people .
“爱”这个字不同的人用来表示不同的意思。
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The children are in desperate need of love and attention .
这些孩子非常需要爱心和关怀。
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I used to love her but she 's nothing to me any more .
我爱过她，但现在对她再也没什么感情了。
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I didn 't really share in her love of animals .
我并不真像她那样喜欢动物。
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I just love it when you bring me presents !
我就喜欢你送我礼物！
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Are you in love with him , by any chance ?
你爱上他了？
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Every child needs to know that he is loved .
每个孩子都需要知道自己是有人爱的。
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Give my love to Mary when you see her .
见到玛丽代我向她问好。
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She 'd love to be able to play the piano .
她很希望能弹钢琴。
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Can I help you , love ?
亲爱的，我能帮你忙吗？
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Nothing can compensate for the loss of a loved one .
失去心爱的人是无法补偿的。
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She had loved him at a distance for years .
她曾经暗恋了他好多年。
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I 'd love to go to France this summer .
今年夏天我想去法国。
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With all her faults I still love her .
尽管她有种种缺点，我依然爱着她。
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I love this type of book .
我喜欢这类书籍。
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I loved history when I was at school .
我上学时喜欢历史。
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I love listening to his tales of life at sea .
我喜欢听他讲述他的海上生活。
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Bring the family round one evening ; we 'd love to meet them .
哪天晚上带全家人来坐坐，我们很想见见他们。
指热爱国家、组织等，词义庄重，感情色彩浓厚；也指爱慕某人或深爱亲友等。
He loves freedom.
他热爱自由。
Everyone loves his hometown.
每个人都爱自己的家乡。
We love our motherland.
我们热爱祖国。
I love you, David.
我爱你，戴维。
I love my dad very much.
我非常爱我爸爸。
指非常热爱或敬佩某人，并以其为骄傲。
The boys adore their mothers.
男孩们敬慕他们的母亲。
She adores her grandson.
她非常宠爱孙子。
尤指非常爱慕某人乃至看不到其缺点。
He absolutely worships her.
他对她极为爱慕。
She worshipped him and refused to listen to his critics.
她很仰慕他,听不进别人对他的批评。
普通用词，指对某人、某事物或做某事产生好感或兴趣，语义较弱；也指赞同某事。
You'll like my mother.
你会喜欢我妈妈的。
He likes swimming.
他喜欢游泳。
I like the way you've had your hair done.
我喜欢你这个发式。
I don't like swearing in front of children.
我不喜欢在孩子面前说粗话。
指享受某事物带来的乐趣，其后常接动名词而不接动词不定式。
I don't enjoy travelling a lot.
我不是很喜欢旅行。
How did you enjoy the concert?
你喜欢那场音乐会吗？
指喜爱（做）某事，语义较强，常可与 like 换用。
Do you love/like calligraphy?
你喜欢书法吗?
I love/like taking a long walk in the morning.
我喜欢早晨长距离散步。
He loves/likes to talk about himself.
他喜欢谈论自己。
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