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单词 affaire
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affaire1

(also affaire de cœur, affaire du cœur)
noun aˈfɛː
  • A love affair.

    风流韵事,私通;(非夫妻间的)情爱关系

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I tried to act utterly cool and nonplussed by the whole affaire de Madamoiselle A.
    • Well, at least I keep my private affaires to myself mostly.
    • In Libya, people put ice in their drinks, had houseboys and conducted affaires.
    Synonyms
    relationship, love affair, romance, fling, flirtation, dalliance, liaison, entanglement, romantic entanglement, involvement, attachment, affair of the heart, intrigue

Origin

Early 19th century: French, literally 'affair (of the heart)'.

Rhymes

affair, air, Altair, Althusser, Anvers, Apollinaire, Astaire, aware, Ayer, Ayr, bare, bear, bêche-de-mer, beware, billionaire, Blair, blare, Bonaire, cafetière, care, chair, chargé d'affaires, chemin de fer, Cher, Clair, Claire, Clare, commissionaire, compare, concessionaire, cordon sanitaire, couvert, Daguerre, dare, debonair, declare, derrière, despair, doctrinaire, éclair, e'er, elsewhere, ensnare, ere, extraordinaire, Eyre, fair, fare, fayre, Finisterre, flair, flare, Folies-Bergère, forbear, forswear, foursquare, glair, glare, hair, hare, heir, Herr, impair, jardinière, Khmer, Kildare, La Bruyère, lair, laissez-faire, legionnaire, luminaire, mal de mer, mare, mayor, meunière, mid-air, millionaire, misère, Mon-Khmer, multimillionaire, ne'er, Niger, nom de guerre, outstare, outwear, pair, pare, parterre, pear, père, pied-à-terre, Pierre, plein-air, prayer, questionnaire, rare, ready-to-wear, rivière, Rosslare, Santander, savoir faire, scare, secretaire, share, snare, solitaire, Soufrière, spare, square, stair, stare, surface-to-air, swear, Tailleferre, tare, tear, their, there, they're, vin ordinaire, Voltaire, ware, wear, Weston-super-Mare, where, yeah

affairé2

adjective aˈfɛːreɪafeʀe
  • Busy; involved.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These pressures of one thing and another make me feel very affairé. I cannot imagine myself looking at Christmas shops.
    • Much later he passed again and casually left a loaf of bread inside the barn door, stayed not for idle gossip but briskly, looking very "affairé", disappeared around the corner.

Origin

French, from affaire, from à 'to' + faire 'do'.

Definition of affaire in US English:

affaire

(also affaire du cœur, affaire de cœur)
nounəˈfer
  • A love affair.

    风流韵事,私通;(非夫妻间的)情爱关系

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I tried to act utterly cool and nonplussed by the whole affaire de Madamoiselle A.
    • Well, at least I keep my private affaires to myself mostly.
    • In Libya, people put ice in their drinks, had houseboys and conducted affaires.
    Synonyms
    relationship, love affair, romance, fling, flirtation, dalliance, liaison, entanglement, romantic entanglement, involvement, attachment, affair of the heart, intrigue

Origin

Early 19th century: French, literally ‘affair (of the heart)’.

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