affair

[ə'fɛə]

n.私通, 事件, 事务, 事情

n.[C]

1. 事情, 事, 事件

How are your affairs going?

你的情况怎么样?

The wedding was a quiet affair.

婚礼是悄悄地进行的。

2. 事务, 业务; 事态[P]

The premier deals with important affairs of state.

总理处理国家重要事务。

3. 恋爱事件, 风流韵事

4. 【美】喜庆(或社交)活动

词形变化

副词: affably | 名词: affability |

词义辨析

同义:

n.事情, 事件; 事务

occurrence  concern  matter  occasion  happening  event  business

n.喜庆(或社交)活动

festivity  party  

同义参见:

coffee  episode  occupation  amour  romance  doing  fair  performance  thing  banquet  labor  interest  

英英释义

名词 affair:

a vaguely specified concern

同义词：matter, thing

a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

同义词：affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour

a vaguely specified social event

同义词：occasion, social occasion, function, social function

补充

affairaffair英:[əˈfɛə] 美:[əˈfɛr]n.1.发生的事情; 大事; 事件The exhibition will be a big affair.这次展出将是一个盛举。2.事务, 事态I know nothing of legal affairs.我对法律方面的事情一无所知。

例句

1. It was a dreadful affair.那是一件可怕的事情。 2. The government has mishandled the whole affair.政府对整个事件处理不当。 3. Michael said that his planned 10-day visit would be a purely private affair.迈克尔说, 他所计划的10天访问纯属私事。 4. Breakfast will be a cheerless affair for the Prime Minister this morning.今天的早餐会让首相感觉索然无味。 5. If you wish to make a fool of yourself, that is your affair.如果你想出丑, 那是你的事。 6. All their beds were distinctive; Mac's was an iron affair with brass knobs.他们的床各具特色；马克的床是张带球形黄铜柱头的铁家伙。 7. She was having an affair with someone at work.她与某位同事有染。 8. a passionate affair that lasted for ten years持续10年的婚外热恋 9. the board admitted responsibility for the affair.委员会承认对该事负责。 10. I wanted the funeral to be a family affair.我希望葬礼只是自家的事情。 11. what you do in your spare time is your affair.你闲暇时做什么是你自己的事。 12. commissions were created to advise on foreign affairs.成立委员会咨询外交事务。 13. his time was spent in winding up his affairs.他的时间都用在料理停当生意上了。 14. her dress was a black low-cut affair.她的礼服是黑色低胸的。 15. his wife is having an affair.他妻子正在婚外恋。 16. The whole affair has been extremely unpleasant.整件事情令人很不愉快。 17. the minister for foreign affairs外交部长 18. current affairs (= the political and social events that are happening at the present time)时事 19. What happened between us is my affair. I don't want to discuss it.我们之间的事是我的私事。我不想拿出来讨论。 20. The group conducts its affairs [=business] in private.这个组织暗地里开展活动。 21. We were told to arrange/settle our affairs. = We were told to put our affairs in order.我们被告知要把我们自己的事安排有序。 22. handling/managing someone else's affairs处理他人的事务 23. They seem to be quite pleased with the current/present state of affairs. [=situation]他们似乎对目前的形势很满意。 24. She's the company's director of public affairs. [=the person who manages a company's relationship with the public]她是公司的公共事务部主管。 25. She's an expert in foreign affairs. [=events and activities that involve foreign countries]她是一名外事专家。 26. world/international affairs [=events and activities that involve different nations]国际事务 27. "After the war, the government focused on its own domestic affairs."战后，政府集中精力处理本国的国内事务。 28. They accused the U.S. of interfering in the internal affairs of other nations.他们谴责美国政府干涉别国内政。 29. "This has nothing to do with you. It's not your affair. [=business, concern] = It's none of your affair. [=business]"这事与你无关。别多管闲事。 30. "How I choose to live is my affair, not yours."选择如何生活是我的私事，与你无关。 31. adulterous/extramarital affairs between married men and single women已婚男子与单身女子的私通/婚外恋 32. She divorced her husband after she discovered that he was having an affair.她发现丈夫有外遇之后就和他离婚了。 33. She had an affair with a coworker.她与一名同事有过一段风流韵事。 34. He wants to make their wedding day an affair to remember. [=a special event]他想让他们的婚礼这一天成为值得纪念的日子。 35. a simple/elaborate affair简单的/复杂的事情 36. We were invited to a black-tie affair [=a party in which men wear tuxedos and women wear fancy dresses] at the governor's mansion.我们应邀参加了在总督府举办的正式晚宴。 37. the famous hostage affair of the late 1970s*20世纪70年代末那场著名的人质事件 38. The public has shown little interest in the whole affair.公众对整个事件显得不甚关心。 39. the Iran-Contra affair [=scandal]伊朗门事件 40. The only bridge across the river was a flimsy affair of ropes and rotten wood.河上唯一的一座桥只不过是用绳子和烂木头拼凑出的简易过河通道。