英语词汇“love”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	love
释义	love I. \ˈləv\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lufu; akin to Old High German lupa love, Old English lēof dear, Latin lubēre, libēre to please, Sanskrit lubhyati he desires 1. a. : the attraction, desire, or affection felt for a person who arouses delight or admiration or elicits tenderness, sympathetic interest, or benevolence : devoted affection < a mother's love for her child > b. : an assurance of love < give my love to your father when you get home > 2. a. : warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion (as to a pursuit or a concrete or ideal object) < inherited his father's love of the sea — G.H.Burnham > < just so much instruction in Latin as would suffice to show which boys and girls had a love of the subject — Bertrand Russell > b. : the object of such attachment or devotion < a born crusader and his love was language — Charlton Laird > < events and people are his love, festivals, law terms, battles, licences, royalty — but especially people — G.W.Stonier > 3. a. : the benevolence attributed to God as resembling a father's affection for his children b. : men's adoration of God in gratitude or devotion 4. a. : the attraction based on sexual desire : the affection and tenderness felt by lovers < the entrance of love into sex life … was an advance along the road of human civilization as important as the emancipation of slaves — Theodor Reik > < his love had been woven of sentiment rather than passion — Ellen Glasgow > b. : a god or personification of love (as Cupid, Amor, or Eros) or a figured representation of one (as in art of imaginative conception) < on the other side a Love with a flaring torch and head averted — S.T.Coleridge > c. : an amorous episode : amour, love affair < tremendous curiosity about her jealously guarded life and loves — Bosley Crowther > d. : the sexual embrace : copulation < many cocottes pay their coachmen either partly or wholly in love — Arnold Bennett > 5. : a beloved person : darling, dear, sweetheart — often used as an endearment < come on, love, let's go in and see what's doing — Lilian Balch > 6. obsolete : a thin silk fabric formerly worn in token of mourning or a border made of this stuff 7. : a score of zero in tennis and some other games : nothing < if the server wins the first point, the score is fifteen-love — Clement Wood & Gloria Goddard > < opened the match with a love victory on his own service — New York Times > 8. capitalized, Christian Science : god 9. : a delightful or superb example, instance, or occurrence < we had a perfect love of a sounding-boat — Mark Twain > < it's a love, isn't it — Marguerite Steen > Synonyms: see attachment • - for love - for love or money - in love - of all love II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English loven, from Old English lufian; akin to Old High German lubōn to love; denominative from the root of English love (I) *transitive verb* 1. : to feel affection for : hold dear : cherish < the lonely and ailing old bachelors and widowers … all love her — G.S.Perry > 2. a. : to feel a lover's passion, devotion, or tenderness for < loved his wife devotedly — Ruth P. Randall > b. : to engage in sex play — sometimes used with up c. : to copulate with 3. a. : to cherish or foster with divine love and mercy < I have loved you with an everlasting love — Jer 31:3 (Revised Standard Version) > b. : to feel reverent adoration for (God) < but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments — Exod 20:6 (Revised Standard Version) > 4. a. : to like or desire actively : be strongly attracted or attached to : delight in < the sculptor must love the feel of stone — Leslie Rees > < he loves the limelight — Eudora Welty > < some leading social scientists love their IBM machines too much — C.K.Kluckhohn > b. : to take pleasure or satisfaction in : like — used with an infinitive as object < loved to indulge his grief in true romantic fashion — J.W.Beach > < the poor folk would still love to emigrate to the U.S. — Frank Gorrell > 5. : fondle, caress < mother nuzzled my cheek and throat and I loved her back > 6. : to thrive in : prefer — used of plants and animals < the rose loves sunlight > < central Asian wild pheasants love impenetrable jungles — Douglas Carruthers > 7. : choose, prefer, like < would love to have some lemonade > *intransitive verb* : to feel affection or experience desire < the poet must learn to love before he can begin to hate — C.D.Lewis > Synonyms: see like III. Usage: usually capitalized — a communications code word for the letter l
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