love affair

1. N-COUNT A love affair is a romantic and usually sexual relationship between two people who love each other but who are not married or living together. 風(fēng)流韻事

...a stressful love affair with a married man. …和一個已婚男子的一段備受壓力的風(fēng)流戀情。

2. N-SING If you refer to someone's love affair with something, you mean that they like it a lot and are very enthusiastic about it. (對某物的) 強(qiáng)烈興趣

...the American love affair with firearms. …美國人對槍支的強(qiáng)烈興趣。