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单词 affect
释义

affect1

/əˈfɛkt /
verb [with object]
1Have an effect on; make a difference to: the dampness began to affect my health [with clause]: your attitude will affect how successful you are...
  • Differences in environment or health status may affect how people respond to subjective assessments.
  • This is beginning to affect how the law determines which of these relationships should be given legal recognition.
  • The effects of the hunger affected each of their kind differently.

Synonyms

influence, exert influence on, have an effect on, act on, work on, condition, touch, have an impact on, impact on, take hold of, attack, infect, strike, strike at, hit;
change, alter, modify, transform, form, shape, control, govern, determine, decide, guide, sway, bias
1.1Touch the feelings of; move emotionally: he was visibly affected by the tragedy...
  • I was really affected and touched by the sound of her voice, which differed from any conventional idea of a beautiful voice.
  • But these are the stories that affected me, that moved me, that stayed with me.
  • I do not remember the last time I was so viscerally affected by a literary account of another person's experience.

Synonyms

upset, trouble, hit hard, overwhelm, devastate, damage, hurt, pain, grieve, sadden, distress, disturb, perturb, agitate, shake, shake up, stir;
move, touch, tug at someone's heartstrings;
make an impression on
informal knock for six, knock back, bowl over, throw, faze, get to
touching, moving, emotive, powerful, stirring, impressive, telling, soul-stirring, uplifting, heart-warming;
poignant, pathetic, pitiful, piteous, plaintive, emotional, tear-jerking, heart-rending, heartbreaking, disturbing, distressing, upsetting, saddening, sad, painful, agonizing, harrowing, tragic, haunting

Usage

Affect and effect are quite different in meaning, though frequently confused. Affect is primarily a verb meaning ‘make a difference to’, as in their gender need not affect their career. Effect, on the other hand, is used both as a noun and a verb, meaning ‘a result’ as a noun (move the cursor until you get the effect you want) or ‘bring about a result’ as a verb (growth in the economy can only be effected by stringent economic controls).

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'attack as a disease'): from French affecter or Latin affect- 'influenced, affected', from the verb afficere (see affect2).

Rhymes

affect2

/əˈfɛkt /
verb [with object]
1Pretend to have or feel (something): as usual I affected a supreme unconcern [with infinitive]: a book that affects to loathe the modern world...
  • Although the author affects befuddlement, his book demonstrates an unfaltering sense of self.
  • The boy then sat on top of the pillow, affecting an air of supreme indifference.
  • One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties.

Synonyms

pretend, feign, fake, counterfeit, sham, simulate, fabricate, give the appearance of, make a show of, make a pretence of, play at, go through the motions of
informal put on
North American informal make like
1.1Use, wear, or assume (something) pretentiously or so as to make an impression on others: an Anglophile who had affected a British accent...
  • He has enough shirt buttons undone to wear a medallion, but instead affects a necklace.
  • Sometimes you become very aware that you're watching an actor affecting crazy mannerisms in a crazy movie.
  • Her haughty tone affected the third voice, giving him the impression that she was annoyed.

Synonyms

assume, put on, take on, adopt, like, have a liking for, embrace, espouse

Origin

Late Middle English: from French affecter or Latin affectare 'aim at', frequentative of afficere 'work on, influence', from ad- 'at, to' + facere 'do'. The original sense was 'like, love', hence '(like to) use, assume, etc.'.

affect3

/ˈafɛkt /
noun [mass noun] Psychology
Emotion or desire as influencing behaviour.By triggering affect and emotion, intolerant behaviors are set in motion....
  • We have come a long way from Freud's affect theory to viewing emotions as joining and integrating minds.
  • This, says Jung, is because they confuse feeling with emotion or affect.

Derivatives

affectless

adjective ...
  • Watson's descriptions of his encounters with these women is affectless and somehow totally centered about his own ego.
  • The affectless voyeurism and exhibitionism of reality TV has undoubtedly inspired the movie.
  • His expression was bland and grim and affectless.

affectlessness

noun ...
  • Sherman's declamatory vocals add a precise note of affectlessness to his incisive lyrics about romantic dislocation.
  • Both the exhilaration and the hollow affectlessness of everything that follows proceed directly from this game plan.
  • And the movie's weird mixture of moralism and affectlessness cancel each other out.

Origin

Late 19th century: coined in German from Latin affectus 'disposition', from afficere 'to influence' (see affect2).

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