- [uncountable]
a very strong feeling of liking and caring for somebody/something, especially a member of your family or a friend 愛;熱愛;慈愛 She has earned the love and respect of many people. 她已經赢得了許多人的愛戴和尊敬。 - love for somebody/something
a mother’s unconditional love for her children 母親對孩子無條件的愛 - love of somebody/something
love of your country 對祖國的熱愛
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsa1, Feelingsa1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- all-consuming
- burning
- deep
- …
- feel
- have
- experience
- …
- bloom
- blossom
- grow
- …
- affair
- triangle
- life
- …
- for love
- out of love
- in love
- …
- an act of love
- deeply in love
- madly in love
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- [uncountable]
a strong feeling of romantic attraction for somebody 愛;熱愛 I'm sure you will find true love. 我相信你會找到真愛的。 - in love
We're in love! 我們相愛了! They're madly in love. 他們狂熱地相愛。 She has been in and out of love many times. 她戀愛過很多次,也失戀過很多次。 - in love with somebody
She was in love with him. 她與他相愛了。 They fell in love with each other. 他們彼此相愛了。 There wasn't anyone else in his life; he simply fell out of love with her. 他的生活中沒有其他人;他只是不再愛她了。 - love for somebody
They finally expressed their love for each other. 他們最終表達了對彼此的愛。 It was love at first sight (= they were attracted to each other the first time they met). 那是一見鐘情。 It is a story of unrequited love (= love that is not returned). 這是一個單戀的故事。 romantic/undying/passionate love 浪漫/永恒/熱烈的愛情 a love song/story 愛情歌曲/故事
Wordfinder- affair
- date
- go out with somebody
- jealous
- love
- marriage
- partner
- passionate
- relationship
- romantic
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsa1At last she had found true love. 最終她找到了真愛。 Does she doubt my love for her? 她懷疑我對她的愛嗎? He did not know how to express his love for her. 他不知道如何表達對她的愛。 He didn't return her love. 他沒有回報她的愛。 I did it for love! 我是因爲愛才這樣做的! In his music dramas, love conquers all. 在他的音樂劇裏,愛情征服一切。 Love blossomed between the two of them. 二人之間開出了愛情之花。 She felt no love for him. 她不愛他。 They publicly declared their love for each other. 他們公開宣布相愛。 You have my undying love. 我永遠愛你。 Their love grew with the years. 他們的愛逐年加深。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- all-consuming
- burning
- deep
- …
- feel
- have
- experience
- …
- bloom
- blossom
- grow
- …
- affair
- triangle
- life
- …
- for love
- out of love
- in love
- …
- an act of love
- deeply in love
- madly in love
- …
- [uncountable, singular]
the strong feeling of pleasure that something gives you 喜好;喜愛 - love of something
They shared a love of learning. 他們都熱愛學習。 - love for something
her love for her garden 她對花園的熱愛 - in love with something
He's in love with his work. 他熱愛自己的工作。 I fell in love with the house. 我喜歡上了這房子。
Extra ExamplesHe developed a lifelong love of music. 他養成了對音樂的終身熱愛。 He had a great love of life. 他熱愛生命。 He had an abiding love of the English countryside. 他永遠熱愛英國的鄉村。 His wealth enabled him to indulge his love of fast cars. 他的財富使他能夠縱情於自己對速度快的汽車的喜愛。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- all-consuming
- burning
- deep
- …
- feel
- have
- experience
- …
- bloom
- blossom
- grow
- …
- affair
- triangle
- life
- …
- for love
- out of love
- in love
- …
- an act of love
- deeply in love
- madly in love
- …
- love of something
- [countable]
a person, a thing or an activity that you like very much 心愛的人;鐘愛之物;愛好 Take care, my love. 保重,我的愛人。 He was the love of my life (= the person I loved most). 他是我一生中最愛的人。 I like most sports but tennis is my first love. 大多數運動我都喜歡,而網球是我的第一愛好。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- all-consuming
- burning
- deep
- …
- feel
- have
- experience
- …
- bloom
- blossom
- grow
- …
- affair
- triangle
- life
- …
- for love
- out of love
- in love
- …
- an act of love
- deeply in love
- madly in love
- …
- [countable] (British English, informal)
a word used as a friendly way of addressing somebody compare duck(暱稱)親愛的 - [uncountable]
a score of zero (points or games) 零分 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盤。
liking and caring
romantic浪漫
pleasure
somebody/something you like所愛的人/事物
friendly name友好的稱呼
in tennis網球
Word OriginOld English lufu, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lubhyati ‘desires’, Latin libet ‘it is pleasing’, libido ‘desire’, also by the noun leave and lief.
Idioms
all’s fair in love and war
- (saying)
in some situations any type of behaviour is acceptable to get what you want 在情場和戰場上可以不擇手段
cupboard love
- (British English, old-fashioned)
love that somebody, especially a child, shows towards somebody else in order to get something (尤指小孩)有所企圖的親熱
(just) for love | (just) for the love of something
for the love of God
give/send my love to somebody
head over heels in love
loving somebody very much Topics Feelingsc2深深愛着某人;迷戀
a labour of love
a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary 爲愛好而做的困難工作 Writing the book was a labour of love. 寫這本書是一項熱愛的工作。
love from | (lots of) love (from)
- (informal)
used at the end of a letter to a friend or to somebody you love, followed by your name (用於給朋友或所愛的人的信結尾具名前)愛你的 Lots of love, Jenny 非常愛你的珍妮 See you soon. Love, Steve. 回頭見。愛,史蒂夫。
love is blind
- (saying)
when you love somebody, you cannot see their faults 愛情是盲目的,愛讓人蒙蔽雙眼(指戀愛中的人看不到對方缺點)
make love (to somebody)
not for love or/nor money
there’s little/no love lost between A and B