| 单词 | love |
| 释义 | love (lʌv ) Word forms: loves , loving , loved 1. verb A1 If you love someone, you feel romantically or sexually attracted to them, and they are very important to you. Oh, Amy, I love you. [VERB noun] We love each other. We want to spend our lives together. [VERB noun] Synonyms: adore, care for, treasure, cherish 2. uncountable noun B1 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. [+ for] ...an old-fashioned love story. ...an album of love songs. Synonyms: passion, liking, regard, friendship 3. verb A1 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. [VERB noun] 4. uncountable noun B1 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. [+ for] She's got a great capacity for love. 5. verb A1 If you love something, you like it very much. We loved the food so much, especially the fish dishes. [VERB noun/verb-ing] I loved reading. [VERB noun/verb-ing] ...one of these people that loves to be in the outdoors. [VERB to-infinitive] I love it when I hear you laugh. [V it wh] Synonyms: enjoy, like, desire, fancy [informal] 6. verb A1 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. [VERB noun] 7. uncountable noun B2 Love is a strong liking for something, or a belief that it is important. This is no way to encourage a love of literature. The French are known for their love of their language. [+ of] 8. countable noun [usually with poss] B1+ Your love is someone or something that you love. 'She is the love of my life,' he said. Music's one of my great loves. 9. verb A2 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. [VERB to-infinitive] I would love a hot bath and clean clothes. [VERB noun] His wife would love him to give up his job. [VERB noun to-infinitive] 10. countable noun Some people use love as an affectionate way of addressing someone. [British, informal, feelings] Well, I'll take your word for it then, love. Don't cry, my love. Synonyms: beloved, dear, dearest, sweet 11. number In tennis, love is a score of zero. He beat the Austrian three sets to love. 12. convention A2 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 or email to a friend or relation. ...with love from Grandma and Grandpa. 13. uncountable noun 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. 14. See also free love, -loved, loving, peace-loving, tug-of-love 15. fall in love phrase 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. 16. fall in love phrase B1 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. [+ with] We fell madly in love. 17. be in love phrase B1 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. I've never really been in love with anyone. [+ with] We were madly in love for about two years. 18. be in love phrase 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. 19. no love lost/little love lost phrase [usu v-link PHR between pl-n] 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. 20. make love phrase When two people make love, they have sex. Have you ever made love to a girl before? [+ to] One night, after 18 months of friendship, they made love for the first and last time. Synonyms: have sexual intercourse, have sex, go to bed, sleep together 21. for love or money phrase [with brd-neg, PHRASE after verb] 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. I'm not coming back up here. Never, for love nor money. Synonyms: by any means, ever, under any conditions 22. love at first sight phrase [usu it be PHR] 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. 23. labour of love phrase If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work. Writing this book has been a great pleasure, a true labour of love. Quotations: How do I love thee? Let me count the waysSonnets from the Portuguese All that matters is love and work Money was scarce but new love has no need of money. Somewhere to go, to be together is all and we were lucky. We had that. Hell is love with no place to goAll the Little Loved Ones To be overtopped in anything else I can bear: but in the tests of generous love I defy all mankindletter to Clarinda Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through lifeCelestine What love is, if thou wouldst be taught, Thy heart must teach alone - Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as oneDer Sohn der Wildnis Love is like the measles; we all have to go through itThe Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in lifeWit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dreamLove's Young Dream And all for love, and nothing for rewardThe Faerie Queene ' Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at allIn Memoriam A.H.H. Love means never having to say you're sorryLove Story In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of loveLocksley Hall Love conquers all things; let us too give in to loveEclogue Love and do what you willIn Epistolam Joannis ad Parthos Those have most power to hurt us that we loveThe Maid's Tragedy My love's a noble madnessAll for Love And love's the noblest frailty of the mindThe Indian Emperor Love's tongue is in the eyesPiscatory Eclogues Love is only one of many passionsPlays of William Shakespeare, preface Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?Hero and Leander If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for loveAs You Like It The course of true love never did run smoothA Midsummer Night's Dream Love is not love Which alters when it alteration findsSonnets O my love's like a red, red roseA Red, Red Rose Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love Every man is a poet when he is in loveSymposium one that lov'd not wisely but too wellOthello To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible godThe Meeting in a Dream Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secretThe Lover's Watch, Four O'Clock Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it Bible: Song of Solomon Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends Bible: St. John O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird And all a wonder and a wild desireThe Ring and the Book Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sickLove's Progress I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetryThe Triple Fool How alike are the groans of love to those of the dyingUnder the Volcano After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Now that love has perished?Passer Mortuus Est If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: `Because it was he; because it was me.'Essais Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, diesThe Anagram Love thy neighbour as thyself Bible: Leviticus All's fair in love and war Love is blind One cannot love and be wise Love makes the world go round Love will find a way Idioms: someone would love to be a fly on the wall said to mean that someone would like to be present when a particular thing happens, and hear what is said or see what happens, although this is actually impossible because it will take place in private I'd love to be a fly on the wall at their team meetings. I'd love to work as the personal photographer of a rock star for a year, documenting their life on the road from a fly-on-the-wall perspective. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers cupboard love [British] the insincere affection shown by children or animals towards someone who they think will give them something that they want `Cupboard love,' she accused, freeing her ankles of the cat. `You'd agree with anyone who could open the fridge or cooker.' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a labour of love a job or task that you do for pleasure or out of duty without expecting a large reward or payment for it They concentrated on restoring outbuildings such as the Victorian greenhouse, an expensive labour of love. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers all's fair in love and war said to mean that under difficult circumstances any kind of behaviour is acceptable All is fair in love and war and I now fully appreciate how betrayal can lead to so much resentment. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers for love nor money if you cannot get something for love nor money, it is very difficult to get You won't get a room here, not for love nor money. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers no love lost or little love lost if there is no love lost between two people or groups, they do not like each other at all There was no love lost between the country's two most powerful politicians. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: abiding love In one respect it is a tribute to the deep and abiding Australian love of cricket. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Asia has been an abiding love. Times, Sunday Times (2015) These early experiences left him with an abiding love of nature. Times, Sunday Times (2013) They absolutely loved the changes to our meals. The Sun (2007) I had a sneak peek of the first episode and absolutely loved it. The Sun (2016) We absolutely love buying stuff online. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It's a powerful story of brotherly love with an unlikely twist. Times, Sunday Times (2014) There's no such thing as brotherly love when you live where I do. The Sun (2013) What happened to brotherly love? The Sun (2008) These missions imbued him with a deep love of nature. Times, Sunday Times (2015) No one could doubt their deep love for one another. The Sun (2011) It can feel safer to hold back some of your feelings, but now you're ready to show how deep love goes. The Sun (2012) If you are single, a jokey, flirty text may conceal deep love feelings. The Sun (2011) From the beginning he had a deep love for his native Switzerland with its towering mountains and beautiful valleys. Christianity Today (2000) I talked about divine love involving sacrificial action, doing good and praying. Christianity Today (2000) We experience the cascade of divine love when we receive God's love through other people. Christianity Today (2000) Some consider her the symbol or embodiment of divine love. Christianity Today (2000) With a fine assortment of musician friends, he tackles gripping ancient ballads about doomed love. The Sun (2010) They spoke of his doomed love for a fellow student. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It is a bleakly beautiful portrait of doomed love. Times, Sunday Times (2008) As a child her mother found it hard to express love and affection towards Felicity. Beyond Chaotic Eating (1993) Sure, there are different ways of expressing love to different people. Times, Sunday Times (2013) So expressing love and appreciation to them is essential. Christianity Today (2000) Has he found true love at last? The Sun (2008) People who are successful at finding love keep their eyes wide open to different exciting possibilities. The Sun (2014) She dreams of being a writer and of finding love after her divorce. Times, Sunday Times (2012) He stars in the film, which is an intense tale of forbidden love. The Sun (2012) Brokeback Mountain, a film about the forbidden love between gay Wyoming cowboys, won four awards. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Between consenting adults, there is almost no such thing as forbidden love. The Times Literary Supplement (2010) You don't sound as though you are looking for lasting love. Times, Sunday Times (2012) True friendship is a vital part of lasting love and accepting this helps you make good relationship choices. The Sun (2010) Does your job come before finding lasting love? The Sun (2009) My lifelong love of science is partly down to my father. Times, Sunday Times (2014) We are here to talk about her lifelong love of fashion. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The right sort of education should also leave children with a lifelong love of learning. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE (2005) You have to love unconditionally. Christianity Today Someone you love unconditionally, even when they keep breaking your heart? Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She possesses the ability to love unconditionally, so life thrives around her. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It seems my brother has always been loved unconditionally, which leaves me very confused. Times, Sunday Times We may feel abandoned by the people about whom we cared most deeply, but the gospel assures us that we are loved unconditionally and will never be abandoned. Christianity Today We like to think we're a nation with a profound love of children, by which we mean our own children mainly. Times, Sunday Times (2008) His roots are in rural Burgundy, in a family with a profound love of nature. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Only somebody with a profound love of the game and of competition could put himself through so much. Times, Sunday Times (2011) You know love is real when you can completely relax in each other's company. The Sun (2013) Their care for each other is what real love is all about. Houston Chronicle (2009) How can you tell if love is real this time around? The Sun (2013) Her luck with men is minimal and she has plenty to learn before real love comes knocking on her door. Herald (South Africa) (2003) They value selfish pleasure more than sacrificial love. Christianity Today (2000) The basic premise of the gospel is knowing that true life comes through sacrificial love. Christianity Today (2000) That sort of sacrificial love inspired me profoundly. Christianity Today (2000) It emerged that both shared a love of Canada. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Both work in the drinks industry and shared a love of partying. Times, Sunday Times (2014) He reserved a place for the daughter he shared a love for horses with. The Sun (2014) But they bond over a shared love of fishing. The Sun (2013) I have seen mothers full of a very tender love towards their children. Daily Readings with Mother Theresa (1993) Accept this proof of tender love. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The song was full of sadness and tender love. Vanity Fair (1837) The thought of a baby's unconditional love fills him with hope and excitement. The Sun (2006) Thank you for all the memories you have left me and for your unconditional love. Times, Sunday Times (2015) We saw a mother who gave her unconditional love to her daughter. Christianity Today (2000) You don't have to swear undying love for me. The Sun (2015) If only relationships could be perfect and you felt undying love for your partner. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Within months he declared his undying love and wanted us to marry. The Sun (2009) Did their past experiences of unrequited love cause them to feel anxious? EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings (2005) He fancied Sarah no end but it was unrequited love. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Perhaps unrequited love can be enjoyable - better to have loved and lost and all that. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings (2005) Translations: Chinese: 爱, 爱, 喜爱 Japanese: 愛, 愛する, ･･･が大好きだ |
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