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for love

/luhv/US // lʌv //UK // (lʌv) //

为了爱,为爱,为了爱情,为爱而生

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
    • : a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
    • : sexual passion or desire.
    • : a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
    • : : Would you like to see a movie, love?
    • : a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour.
    • : sexual intercourse; copulation.
    • : a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid.
    • : affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor.
    • : strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything: her love of books.
    • : the object or thing so liked: The theater was her great love.
    • : the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God.
    • : Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing.
    • : a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L.
v.有主动词 verb
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    loved, lov·ing.

    • : to have love or affection for: All her pupils love her.
    • : to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for.
    • : to have a strong liking for; take great pleasure in: to love music.
    • : to need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight.
    • : to embrace and kiss, as a lover.
    • : to have sexual intercourse with.
v.无主动词 verb
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    loved, lov·ing.

    • : to have love or affection for another person; be in love.
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    • : love up, to hug and cuddle: She loves him up every chance she gets.

Phrases

  • love affair
  • love at first sight
  • all's fair in love and war
  • course of true love
  • fall in love
  • for the love of
  • labor of love
  • make love
  • misery loves company
  • no love lost
  • not for love or money
  • puppy love
  • somebody up there loves me

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Antonyms

Examples

  • Every now and again, we come across a love story that touches our hearts in more ways than be.

  • Again, I didn’t think much of it as a 15-year-old, but I just had a love for food.

  • Ideally you should be growing and evolving at similar rates and speeds for romantic love, I should say.

  • She’d met me in 1986, at a party for returned Peace Corps volunteers and had fallen in love with the guy who’d just spent two years teaching in Swaziland.

  • To be a real home cook, the kind who put love and attention into each dish, was to make everything yourself.

  • What happened to true love knows no boundaries and all that?

  • “I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.

  • And we have a lot of great guests this season: Greta Gerwig, Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi is back—I love that guy.

  • You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.

  • Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”

  • In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.

  • The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.

  • Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

  • And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.

  • Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.