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love

Word family 
love1 /lʌv/ ●●● S1 W1 verb  
1  romantic attraction 爱情的吸引力 [transitiveT not in progressive]LOVE to have a strong feeling of affection for someone, combined with sexual attraction 爱
 I love you, Tracy.
我爱你，特雷西。
 He was the only man she had ever loved.
他是她唯一爱过的男人。
2  care about 关心 [transitiveT not in progressive]LOVE to care very much about someone, especially a member of your family or a close friend 爱，关爱〔尤指家人或好友〕
 I love my grandad so much.
我非常爱我的爷爷。
 I’ve always loved children.
我一向喜欢孩子。
much-loved/well-loved
 In 1941, her much-loved sister was killed in an accident.
1941年，她深爱的妹妹死于一场事故。
 Many people feel guilty after the death of a loved one.
许多人在至爱之人死后有一种负疚感。
3  like/enjoy 喜欢/喜爱 [transitiveT]ENJOY/LIKE DOING something to like something very much or enjoy doing something very much 喜欢，喜爱〔某物或做某事〕
 I love carrots.
我喜欢吃胡萝卜。
 Jeff loves his work.
杰夫热爱他的工作。
 I love the way she sings that song.
我喜欢她唱那首歌的方式。
 Amy had always loved New York.
埃米一向喜欢纽约。
love doing something
 I love going out to restaurants.
我喜欢去餐馆吃饭。
love to do something
 We all love to talk about ourselves.
我们都喜欢谈论自己。
I’d love to (do something) spoken (=used to say that you would really like to do something) 我很想（做某事）
 ‘Would you like to come swimming with us?’ ‘I’d love to.’
“你想和我们一起去游泳吗？” “我很愿意。”
 I’d have loved to have stayed till the end.
我是很想一直留到结束的。
 I’d love to know just why they did that.
我就是很想知道他们为什么那么做。
► see thesaurus at like
4  loyalty 忠诚 [transitiveT not in progressive]LIKE somebody OR something to have a strong feeling of loyalty to your country, an institution etc 热爱，忠于〔国家、机构等〕
 Dad’s always loved the navy.
爸爸一直热爱海军。
5  I love it! spokenENJOY/LIKE DOING something used when you are amused by something, especially by someone else’s mistake or bad luck 好玩！ 太有趣了！〔尤用于表示觉得别人的差错或坏运气好笑〕
 ‘And then her boyfriend walked in and saw her kissing Ray.’ ‘I love it!’
“就在那时，她男朋友进来了，看到她正在亲吻雷。” “这太有意思了！”
Examples from the Corpus
I love it!• "So then Susan had to explain how the dishes got broken." "Oh, I love it!"
6  somebody’s going to love something spoken
a) ENJOY/LIKE DOING somethingused to say that someone will enjoy something 某人一定会喜欢某事
 Listen guys, you’re going to love this.
大家听好了，你们一定会喜欢这个。
b) DON'T LIKEused to say that someone will not be pleased about something 某人不会喜欢某事
 I’m going to love telling him we’ve changed our minds again.
我可不想告诉他我们又改主意了。
Examples from the Corpus
somebody’s going to love something• And take it from me, you're going to love it.• Just as well she had such guts really, because no one was going to love her for her feminine self.• We want some one the public is going to love or hate, not just the leading scorer.• You're going to love Riverstown.
→ lover
n Grammar
Patterns with love
You love someone or something:
I love my children.
She loves jazz.
You love doing something:
She loves listening to jazz.
You love to do something:
She loves to listen to jazz in her spare time.
✗Don’t say: She loves listen to jazz.
Love doing something and love to do something both mean the same thing. You use love to do especially when saying that someone does something regularly or often.
Using the progressive
The usual rule is that love is not used in the progressive. ✗Don’t say: I am loving my children. | She is loving jazz.
In spoken English, people sometimes say I’m loving something they have just seen or heard:
I’m loving his new show (=I like it a lot).
 THESAURUS
love to like someone very much and care a lot about them – used especially about people in your family or someone who you are sexually attracted to 爱，关爱〔用于家人或爱人〕
I love my wife and children very much.
我很爱我的妻子和孩子。
Have you ever said ‘I love you’ and not really meant it?
你有没有过嘴上说 “我爱你” 而心里却不这么想的时候？
adore to love and admire someone very much 爱慕，热爱
When she was a child she adored her father.
她小时候非常爱她父亲。
be in love (with somebody) to feel that you love someone and want to have a romantic relationship with them （与某人）恋爱
We were both young and very much in love.
我们都很年轻，深深相爱。
Karen was in love with a man who was much older than her.
卡伦爱上了一个比她年长许多的男人。
be infatuated with somebody to love someone a lot and keep thinking about them, in a way that seems silly because you do not know them very well 对某人痴迷〔指不甚了解的人〕
He became infatuated with a woman he met at a conference.
他迷上了一个开会时遇到的女人。
have a crush on somebody to love and be sexually attracted to someone you are not having a relationship with, usually someone older 迷恋某人〔通常指比自己年长的人〕
Jane had a crush on the German teacher.
简迷恋上了那位德语老师。
be crazy about somebody informal to love someone very much – used for emphasis 疯狂地爱上某人〔用于强调〕
She’s crazy about you.
她迷上你啦。
be devoted to somebody to love someone very much and give them a lot of attention 全心全意地爱某人
He was devoted to his wife and his children.
他深深爱着妻子和孩子。
dote on somebody written to love someone very much, especially a much younger family member, and behave very kindly to them 宠爱[溺爱]某人〔尤指年纪比自己小得多的家庭成员〕
He dotes on his grandchildren.
他很宠孙辈。
Examples from the Corpus
love• a much-loved author• Tom was the only man she had ever loved.• You needn't love boxing-or even care for it-to appreciate Toole's highly accomplished debut.• We still love each other very much.• And even crazier to have told him that she loved him.• He loved his stepdaughter as if she were his own child.• It is a heady, exhilarating feeling, and I love it.• Cassie works in the theatre, and she really loves it.• I really believed that my parents didn't love me.• Ben loves swimming, playing tennis, those kinds of thing.• It's incredible how much she loves those two kids.• I love to hear applause between movements.• She loved to sit in the park and feed the ducks.• Because he just loves to write.• I love you, Betty.• I love you so much now, it hurts!• Just relax and let me love you.• He stroked her hair and murmured, "I love you."
loved one• How would anybody feel about the death of a loved one?• About 30 years after the debut of the original, the spies who loved one another are married.• Volunteers in the sitting service have helped families lead relatively normal lives while caring for their loved one at home.• And some wouldn't dream of helping out, however disgusting their loved ones' dishes.• Beware of carrying a subtle ploy too far today or of letting a loved one get away with playing emotional games.• The death or incapacitating illness of a loved one is always hard to take.• As we have discussed, the survivors need to feel involved in their loved one's dying process as much as possible.
love doing something• Katie loves playing tennis.
Related topics: Tennis
love2 ●●● S1 W1 noun  
1  for family/friends 对家人/朋友 [uncountableU]LOVE a strong feeling of caring about someone, especially a member of your family or a close friend 〔尤指对家人、好友的〕爱，关心，关爱 OPP hate, hatred
 What these kids need is love and support.
这些孩子需要的是关心和支持。
love for
 a mother’s love for her child
母亲对孩子的爱
2  romantic 浪漫的 [uncountableU]LOVE a strong feeling of liking someone a lot combined with sexual attraction 恋爱，爱情；性爱
3  person you love 你所爱的人 [countableC]LOVE someone that you feel a strong romantic and sexual attraction to 恋人；情人；爱人
4  pleasure/enjoyment 快乐/乐趣
5  make love (to/with somebody) 
Examples from the Corpus
make love (to/with somebody)• They lie on a mattress in the living room and make love by candlelight.• It sickened her that she could have made love with Tom and be able to remember nothing of it.• Would they make love all day at some hot, steamy house somewhere in this glittering cosmopolitan city?• Billy was on top of Valencia, making love to her.• Next time we make love I want it perfect, with all the time in the world for each other.• We made love all afternoon.• Not all people who make love want to have a baby.
6  send/give your love (to somebody), send/give your love (to somebody)  send/give somebody your loveLOVE to ask someone to give your loving greetings to someone else when they see them, write to them etc （向某人）致意[问候]
Examples from the Corpus
send/give your love (to somebody), • Dad and Charles send their love.• I am fine and your family is in good health and send their love.• Now I am alone except for this unwilling stranger and even to him I gave my love freely. 6.• Of course, she sent her love to Jean.• Open now your hearts to me; give your love to me.• Please give my love to Christopher - will speak to you soon.• Please send me a couple of views of St Albans. Give my love to Kitty.• We are all fine and Chris and Nick send their love.
7  love (from somebody)/lots of love/all my love writtenTCM used at the end of a letter to a friend, a member of your family, or someone you love 爱你的/深爱你的/全心爱你的〔用于写给朋友、家人或所爱之人的信的末尾处〕
8  (my) love British EnglishBrE spoken informal
Examples from the Corpus
(my) love• A little gift from my loving man.• All my love and kisses, Sue Marion put the letter in her bag, ready to take to work tomorrow.• Hence my love for film and my desire to make films as a director and... actor.• I meant to tell you earlier, my love.• I need you now, my love.• I should hate to give the impression that my love for you is but thinly disguised lust.• The purity of my love was something that to me remained undefiled.
9  be a love and .../... there’s a love British EnglishBrE spokenASK FOR something/ASK somebody TO DO something used when you are asking someone, especially children and members of your family, to do something 做个乖宝宝…/…好乖乖〔尤用于要孩子和家人做某事〕
10. there is no love lost between somebody and somebody DON'T LIKEif there is no love lost between two people, they dislike each other 某人和某人之间没有好感，某人与某人互相厌恶
Examples from the Corpus
there is no love lost between somebody and somebody• There's no love lost between Bart and Stephen.
11. tennis 网球 [uncountableU]DST an expression meaning ‘no points’, used in the game of tennis 〔网球比赛中的〕零分
12  not for love or/nor money informalIMPOSSIBLE if you cannot get something or do something for love or money, it is impossible to obtain or to do 无论怎样也不，决不
Examples from the Corpus
not for love or/nor money• I can't get a hold of that book for love nor money.• And you still can't get a good daily woman now to clean, not for love or money.
13. love triangle a situation in which someone is having a sexual relationship with the partner of a close friend – used especially in newspapers 三角恋爱〔尤用于报纸文章〕
Examples from the Corpus
love triangle• All that, and there's still the Baldwin love triangle and Jim and Gwen's bust-up to come.• Alex and Thrash in bizarre love triangle!• There is nothing remarkable about the plot, which revolves around the classic love triangle.
14. for the love of God  (also for the love of Mike/Pete) old-fashioned spokenANGRY used to show that you are extremely angry, disappointed etc 看在上帝的份上〔用于表示怒不可遏、极度沮丧等〕
→ a labour of love at labour1(4)
 COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: a strong feeling of liking someone a lot combined with sexual attraction 恋爱，爱情；性爱
verbs
be in love 恋爱
Are you in love with her?
你是不是爱上她了？
fall in love (=start being in love) 爱上，坠入情网
I fell in love with her the minute I saw her.
我对她一见钟情。
find love (=meet someone to love) 找到爱情
I never thought I would find love.
我想我永远找不到爱情。
return somebody’s love (=love someone who loves you) 回报某人的爱
nEstella does not return Pip’s love.
phrases
love at first sight (=when you love someone as soon as you meet them) 一见钟情
For Marion and Ron it was love at first sight.
玛丽昂和罗恩是一见钟情。
very much in love 热恋
They were obviously very much in love.
显然他们深深相爱。
madly/deeply in love (=very much in love) 疯狂地/深深地相爱
I married Dan because I was madly in love.
我和丹结婚了，因为我爱得如痴如狂。
head over heels in love (=very much in love) 爱得神魂颠倒
nThe two of them fell head over heels in love.
nlove is blind (=used to say that people do not notice the faults of the person they love)
Love is blind, I guess. How else could he stand to be with her?
adjectives
true love (=real love) 真爱
She felt that she had finally found true love.
她觉得自己终于找到了真爱。
nreal love
You could see real love in their eyes.
romantic love 浪漫的爱情
Romantic love was not always the reason for marriage.
婚姻并非总是出于浪漫的爱情。
sexual love 性爱
nVenus was the Roman goddess of sexual love.
unrequited love (=love for someone who does not love you) 单恋，单相思
nShe had a secret, unrequited love for Harrison.
undying love (=love that does not stop) 无尽的爱
nShe and I swore undying love.
npassionate love
He wrote about his passionate love for her.
love + NOUN
a love song/story 情歌/爱情故事
a tragic love story
一段爱情悲剧
a love letter 情书
nShe found a love letter from another woman in his wallet.
 THESAURUS
love noun [uncountableU] a feeling of liking someone very much and caring a lot about them – used about people in your family, or someone you feel sexually attracted to 爱，关爱〔用于家人或爱人〕
nAll children need love, attention, and encouragement.
nWe don’t need words to express our love for each other.
naffection noun [uncountableU] a gentle feeling of love which makes you want to be kind to someone and show them that you love them – used especially about friends and members of your family
My mother never showed us us any affection.
Alison and I had been at school together, and I felt great affection for her.
ndevotion noun [uncountableU] very strong love for someone in which you want to give them a lot of attention and look after them – used especially about strong feelings of love for your wife, husband, children etc
His recovery is largely due to the devotion of his wife and family
npassion noun [uncountableU] a strong and exciting feeling of love for someone you are extremely sexually attracted to
He loved her still, with just the same passion as he always had.
There was no passion in their relationship.
ninfatuation noun [countableC, uncountableU] a strong feeling of love for someone, in which you cannot stop thinking about them, and which seems silly because you do not know them very well
She hoped that his ridiculous infatuation would soon wear off.
His infatuation with Diane seemed to be growing.
a childhood infatuation
nromance noun [uncountableU] the feeling of loving someone and the nice things you do to show this – used about someone you are sexually attracted to
The romance had gone out of their relationship.
In the UK, one in ten people have found romance over the Internet.
ncrush noun [countableC] a very strong feeling of love and sexual attraction for someone such as a teacher or a famous person, especially when there is no chance of you having a relationship with that person because you are much younger than them
She had a teenage crush on one of her teachers.
I had a big crush on Tom Cruise when I was growing up.
a schoolgirl crush
Examples from the Corpus
love• I used to read books about love.• The authoritative, dedicated, and benign conductor was Williams Llewellyn, whose knowledge and love for the score was obvious.• Only his tears spoke of brotherly love.• Jack was her first love.• She was never able to express her love for Henry.• And though they regularly clashed, they were undoubtedly in love.• All children need love, attention, and encouragement.• Finally, it never hurts to wear our own love of reading on our sleeve.• She nourishes a secret, unrequited love for Harry.
love for• a mother's love for her child
first love• We love because he first loved us.• Roland heard her voice again, remembered all that had happened, and fell for his first love.• Brown wrote his novels and faded back into his first love like a man whose ego needed fresh air and nothing more.• I must have been about fifteen when I received my first love letter.• The sea was my first love, but now the hills have an equal claim to my affection.• Elizabeth Taylor was my first love.• Ah, the innocence of first love.• The sweet, tinkling sound of a music box can stir recollections of everything from childhood to first love.
love of/for• Jerrod has a love for the game of chess.• A love of flying Statistics aside, Steve Butler admits that his job sometimes scares him.• Wasn't she used by now to disguising her love for him?• Despite his love of distraction, Minton in his career as yet showed no loss of impetus.• Van Leer inherited some of his father's acumen but none of his money and certainly none of his love for money.• All played directly to his love of the theatrical.• Had already admitted to herself the extent of her own love for him.• On the other hand they are telling us we are not playing for the money but the love of the sport.• It's possible that he's trying to test your love for him.
Origin love2
Old English lufu
love1 verb →n GRAMMAR1 →THESAURUS1love2 noun →COLLOCATIONS1 →THESAURUS1
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