Affair

(noun.) a vaguely specified social event; 'the party was quite an affair'; 'an occasion arranged to honor the president'; 'a seemingly endless round of social functions'.

(noun.) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.

编辑:鲁弗斯

• Jo went and sat on one arm of the chair, looking as if she thought they were about to join in some very solemn affair. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• There will be no difficulty about this affair, Alexandros? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I really see no prospect of throwing any light whatever on this extraordinary affair. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You had a love affair all summer and got this girl with child and now I suppose you'll sneak off. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• A strange affair! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• In this affair, as in every other, Little Dorrit herself was the last person considered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the affair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I never understood it from Aunt Shaw; I only knew he could not come back to England because of that terrible affair. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• But I think I have the key of the affair now. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The house in Yorkshire was associated with the scandalous affair of the lost Moonstone. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The whole of this doctrine leads us to a conclusion, which is of great importance in the present affair, viz. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• But it is not merely this affair, she continued, on which my dislike is founded. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• In what state the affair stood at present between them, Edward knew not, for no communication with any of his family had yet been attempted by him. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It seems to have been a very deliberate affair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• You are a far more competent judge of such affairs than I am. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Consols; for so it was that Becky felt the Vanity of human affairs, and it was in those securities that she would have liked to cast anchor. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Because, there is always such a thing as an adjustment of affairs, in the case of people of any standing at all. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Of course he understands his own affairs. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• We have already told something of the first appearance of the free intelligence, the spirit of inquiry and plain statement, in human affairs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Don't you think you might find some affairs there, ma'am, to interfere with? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• He opposed the existing state of affairs on the ground that it formed neither the citizen nor the man. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Too often the pupil comes out with a smattering which is too superficial to be scientific and too technical to be applicable to ordinary affairs. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The miserable poor devils knew all about his affairs. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• This led him to review the existing state of affairs (1780) and to compare it with the state of affairs during the decline of imperial Rome. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I didn't know,' remarked Mr Fledgeby, trying a new part of his chair, 'but that Lammle might be reserved about his affairs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Miss Hale, I would rather not hear Mr. Lennox's opinion of my affairs. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• All of this is very reminiscent of the religious and political state of affairs in Greece fourteen centuries earlier. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But to suppose that the remedy lies in waiting for monographs from the research of the laboratory is to have lost a sense of the rhythm of actual affairs. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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