love

1. V-T If you love someone, you feel romantically or sexually attracted to them, and they are very important to you. 愛

Oh, Amy, I love you. 啊，埃米，我愛你。

2. N-UNCOUNT Love is a very strong feeling of affection toward someone who you are romantically or sexually attracted to. 愛情

Our love for each other has been increased by what we've been through together. 我們對彼此的愛因我們共同經歷的一切而增強。

...an old fashioned love story. …一個老套的愛情故事。

3. V-T You say that you love someone when their happiness is very important to you, so that you behave in a kind and caring way toward them. 疼愛

You'll never love anyone the way you love your baby. 你永遠不會像疼愛你的孩子那樣愛任何人。

4. N-UNCOUNT Love is the feeling that a person's happiness is very important to you, and the way you show this feeling in your behaviour toward them. 疼愛

My love for all my children is unconditional. 我對我所有孩子的疼愛是無條件的。

5. V-T If you love something, you like it very much. 非常喜歡

We loved the food so much, especially the fish dishes. 我們非常喜歡這些食物，尤其是那幾磐魚。

...one of these people that loves to be in the outdoors. …那些喜歡戶外生活的人們中的一員。

6. V-T You can say that you love something when you consider that it is important and want to protect or support it. 熱愛

I love my country as you love yours. 我熱愛我的國家，就像你熱愛你的國家一樣。

7. N-UNCOUNT Love is a strong liking for something, or a belief that it is important. 熱愛

This is no way to encourage a love of literature. 這不可能激發對文學的熱愛。

8. N-COUNT Your love is someone or something that you love. 心愛之人; 心愛之物

"She is the love of my life," he said. “她是我今生至愛，”他說道。

9. V-T If you would love to have or do something, you very much want to have it or do it. 很願意

I would love to play for England again. 我很願意再次爲英格蘭蓡賽。

I would love a hot bath and clean clothes. 我很想洗個熱水澡，換身乾淨衣服。

10. NUM In tennis, love is a score of zero. (網球比賽中的) 零分

He beat Thomas Muster of Austria three sets to love. 他以3比0戰勝了奧地利的托馬斯·穆斯特。

11. CONVENTION You can use expressions such as love, love from, and all my love, followed by your name, as an informal way of ending a letter to a friend or relative. (給親友的書信結尾，置於寫信人名前) 愛你的

...with love from Grandma and Grandpa. …愛你的祖父母。

12. N-UNCOUNT If you send someone your love, you ask another person, who will soon be speaking or writing to them, to tell them that you are thinking about them with affection. 問候

Please give her my love. 請代我問候她。

13. →see also loving

14. PHRASE If you fall in love with someone, you start to be in love with them. 愛上 (某人)

I fell in love with him because of his kind nature. 我愛上了他，因爲他天性善良。

15. PHRASE If you fall in love with something, you start to like it very much. 非常喜歡 (某物)

I fell in love with the movies. 我非常喜歡這些電影。

16. PHRASE If you are in love with someone, you feel romantically or sexually attracted to them, and they are very important to you. (與某人) 戀愛

Laura had never before been in love. 勞拉以前從未談過戀愛。

17. PHRASE If you are in love with something, you like it very much. 迷戀 (某物)

He had always been in love with the enchanted landscape of the West. 他一直都非常迷戀西部令人陶醉的風光。

18. PHRASE When two people make love, they have sex. 做愛

Have you ever made love to a girl before?

你以前和女孩子做過愛嗎？