1.[pl]公共事务；政治事务events that are of public interest or political importance
world/international/business affairs世界╱国际╱商业事务
an expert on foreign affairs(= political events in other countries)外事专家
affairs of state国务
2.[c][ususing]事件；事情an event that people are talking about or describing in a particular way
The newspapers exaggerated the whole affair wildly.报章毫无根据地夸大了整个事件。
The debate was a pretty disappointing affair.那次辩论使人颇感失望。
She wanted the celebration to be a simple family affair .她希望庆祝活动仅限于家人参加。
3.[c]（尤指已婚男女的）私通，风流韵事a sexual relationship between two people, usually when one or both of them are married to sb else
She is having an affair with her boss.她跟老板有暧昧关系。
4.[pl]私人业务matters connected with a person's private business and financial situation
I looked after my father's financial affairs.我照管父亲的财务。
She wanted to put her affairs in order before she died.她想在去世前把自己的事务安排妥当。
5.[sing]个人的事a thing that sb is responsible for (and that other people should not be concerned with)
How I spend my money is my affair.我如何用钱是我自己的事。
6.[c]不寻常之物；难描述的东西an object that is unusual or difficult to describe
Her hat was an amazing affair with feathers and a huge brim.她的帽子嵌着羽毛，帽檐很宽，真是件奇物。
The affair has put a spotlight on Mr Cameron's circle of friends and his judgement, but so far calls for his resignation are not widespread.
此次窃听丑闻曝光了卡梅伦的朋友圈和他的判断能力。但到目前为止，要求他辞职的呼声并不普遍。
Having found out that his wife had an affair with another man, the poor man wanted to kill himself.
那个可怜的男人由于发现他的妻子与另一个男子有私情而想自杀。
She indicated no curiosity in the woman who had carried on an affair with her husband for more than a year and then murdered him.
她显得对这个跟她丈夫有过一年多风流韵事后谋杀了他的女人没有任何好奇。
PHP has always had something of a love affair with the popular open source relational database management system (RDBMS) known as MySQL.
PHP与流行的开放源代码关系数据库管理系统（RDBMS）MySQL之间总是很有默契。
from the country for her affair with officers of the enemy.
她因与敌人军官的风流事而被驱赶出了村庄。
One day we ended up in bed, and that was the beginning of our affair.
终于有一天我们上了床，开始了这段缘分。
If arrived one end, the affair still could not solve, that also can explain that I really judgment by destiny to have no penny with him.
若是到了最后，事情仍然无法解决，那也只能说明我和他真的有缘无分。
Mr. Godfrey made an effort, and came out with a new version of the affair.
高孚利先生搜索枯肠，终于想出一种新的说法。
Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away.
对于此事，温普尔一点也不知道，鸡蛋按时交付，每周都由一辆食品车来庄园拉一次。
He was apparently content to let a rumour circulate that he had dropped out of circulation in shame over a homosexual affair.
而且他显然很乐意散布这种谣言：他已因耻于同性恋事件而退出社交圈。
What's clear is that whatever love affair many Americans may have had with stocks is over, at least for the moment.
但显而易见的是，无论许多美国人以前对股票多麽浓情蜜意，这种“情意”已不复存在，至少目前是。
All the lodgers in the house knew something of the affair; details had been invented by some.
公寓里的房客对这件风流韵事多少都有耳闻，有的人对细节还添油加醋。
When he knew his wife had an affair with others, he flew off the handle.
当他得知妻子有外遇时，他勃然大怒。
Our "small antelope" has always been in anger with the affair of your slinkingly leave, at least he is when talking of this matter with me.
小羚羊一直在为你偷偷走的事情赌气，至少他在和我说起这件事时是这样的。
Although American literature has revealed certain fairly permanent trends, it has not been a static affair.
美国文学虽然显示了某些较持久的趋势，它并不是静止的。
It was not to be expected that Miss Ley would explain before making the affair a good deal more complicated.
由于莱伊小姐以前没能说明这件事，因此使事情变得很不好理解了。
Plucking these morsels from their habitat, however, is often a violent affair that destroys other denizens of the deep.
然而，从海底捞出这些佳肴通常却会对其他海底生物带来暴力的破坏。
Istanbul was a bit of a freaky game. Do you think this one is going to revert back to the dour old English-Italian one-goal-in-it affair?
伊斯坦布尔决赛有点偏离常规。你认为这一次将恢复到保守的英格兰-大利式一球决胜？
She might have been away with Summerville, he might have wanted to have an affair with her.
她或许会和索姆威勒一起走，他也许想要和她发生关系。
Berlusconi said the affair was the result of "media criminality" .
贝鲁斯科尼说这一事件是“媒体作恶”的结果。
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