剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - affection collapse

affection
/ə'fek.ʃən/
noun
A [C or U]
* a feeling of liking for a person or place
喜爱；钟爱；挚爱

1. He had a deep affection for his aunt.
他非常喜爱他的姑妈。

2. She felt no affection for the child.
她一点都不疼爱这个孩子。

affections
[plural]
* feelings of liking or love
钟爱之情，爱慕；爱情

1. The former president still holds a place in the nation's affections.
前总统仍深得全国人民的爱戴。

2. Sula seems to have transferred her affections from Jon to his brother.
苏拉好像移情别恋了，不再爱乔恩，而喜欢上了他的弟弟。

win sb's affections
* to succeed in persuading someone to love you
赢得（某人的）爱

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - affection collapse

affection ★★☆☆☆
1.N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词喜爱；喜欢 If you regard someone or something with affection, you like them and are fond of them.

【搭配模式】：oft N for/of n

  • She thought of him with affection...

    她很想念他。

  • She had developed quite an affection for the place.

    她逐渐对这个地方钟爱有加。

  • ...trying to win their affection.

    试图赢得他们的好感

2.N-PLURAL 复数名词爱慕；钟爱之情 Your affections are your feelings of love or fondness for someone.

【搭配模式】：with poss

  • The distant object of his affections is Caroline...

    他一厢情愿地爱慕卡罗琳。

  • Jack Russell has a special place in the affections of the cricketing public.

    杰克·拉塞尔在打板球的人心中有着特殊的地位。

  • ...her fear of being replaced in his affections.

    她害怕他会移情别恋

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - affection collapse

☞ affection
af·fec·tion / E5fekFn / noun1. [U, sing.] ~ (for sb / sth) the feeling of liking or loving sb / sth very much and caring about them
   喜爱；钟爱:
   Mr Darcy's affection for his sister
   达西先生对他妹妹的关爱之情
   Children need lots of love and affection.
   孩子需要多多疼爱和关怀。
   He didn't show his wife any affection.
   他没有向妻子表示一点爱。
   She was held in deep affection by all her students.
   她的学生都十分爱戴她。
   I have a great affection for New York.
   我很喜欢纽约。
2. affections [pl.] (formal) a person's feelings of love
   爱情:
   Anne had two men trying to win her affections.
   安妮有两个男人追求。

牛津搭配语词典 第2版 - affection collapse

affection noun

• ADJECTIVE deep, genuine, great, real, special, strong, warm | mutual | brotherly, marital | physical (esp. AmE)

• VERB + AFFECTION feel, have, hold sb in (esp. BrE), retain (formal) He has a great ~ for animals. | He was held in great ~ by hundreds of students. | display, express, give sb, show (sb) | get, receive | return | crave, need, want He just wants a bit of ~. | gain, win She had tried hard to win his ~. | develop She had developed a real ~ for him.

• PREPOSITION with ~ He'll be remembered with genuine ~. | ~ for I have a deep ~ for his mother. | ~ to, ~ towards/toward The teacher showed ~ to all her students.

• PHRASES a display of ~ I don't go in for public displays of ~. | a feeling of ~ a strong feeling of ~ | love and ~ I yearn for the love and ~ I once had. | the object of sb's ~s The object of his ~s was a young opera singer. | a show of ~, a sign of ~

牛津英语同义词学习词典 - affection collapse

affection noun
⇨ love 2

新牛津英语同义词词典 - affection collapse

affection

noun
they greeted each other with obvious affection
FONDNESS , love, liking, endearment, feeling, sentiment, tenderness, warmth, warmness, devotion, care; caring, kindness, kindliness, attentiveness, closeness, attachment, affinity, friendliness, friendship, intimacy, familiarity; amity, favour, regard, respect, admiration, adoration, worship, reverence, estimation; warm feelings.

词源记忆 - affection collapse

affection
 1

affection：情感

发音释义：[ə'fɛkʃən] n. 喜爱，感情；影响；感染

结构分析：affection = affect（影响、感动）+（t）ion（名词后缀）→喜爱、感动、情感


 2

affection：影响；感情，爱，慈爱

词根词缀： af-临近 + -fect-做,作 + -ion