affection
/əˈfɛk.ʃən/ 名词 B1中文： 慈爱、喜爱
- The act of affecting or acting upon.
- The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.
- An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
- An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
- A feeling of love or strong attachment; a feeling of enjoyable and comforting fondness. · I have a lot of affection for my little sister.· The marriage therapist suggested they show each other more affection.
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A little emblem of true love—a little ring that symbolised unending and unmercenary affection—was the cause of our Richard finding his happiness.
Miss Stacy was a bright, sympathetic young woman with the happy gift of winning and holding the affections of her pupils and bringing out the best that was in them mentally and morally.
Lynde says he just worships the ground she treads on and she doesn’t really think it right for a minister to set his affections so much on a mortal being.
All her affection for Geraldine turned to bitter hate and she vowed that she should never marry Bertram.
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