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VERB
愛；愛慕
If you love someone, you feel romantically or sexually attracted to them, and they are very important to you.
例句
Oh, Amy, I love you...
哦，埃米，我愛你。
We love each other. We want to spend our lives together.
我們彼此相愛。我們希望共度一生。
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N-UNCOUNT
愛情；愛意
Love is a very strong feeling of affection towards someone who you are romantically or sexually attracted to.
例句
Our love for each other has been increased by what we've been through together.
我們共同經歷了這些風風雨雨后，彼此更加相愛了。
...a old fashioned love story.
老式愛情故事
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VERB
疼愛；關愛
You say that you love someone when their happiness is very important to you, so that you behave in a kind and caring way towards them.
例句
You'll never love anyone the way you love your baby.
你決不會像疼愛自己的寶寶一樣疼愛別人。
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N-UNCOUNT
疼愛；關愛
Love is the feeling that a person's happiness is very important to you, and the way you show this feeling in your behaviour towards them.
例句
My love for all my children is unconditional...
我對自己所有孩子的愛都是無條件的。
She's got a great capacity for love.
她很懂得如何去愛。
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VERB
喜歡；喜愛
If you love something, you like it very much.
例句
We loved the food so much, especially the fish dishes...
我們很喜歡這些食物，尤其是魚。
I loved reading.
我很愛讀書。
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VERB
熱愛；珍愛
You can say that you love something when you consider that it is important and want to protect or support it.
例句
I love my country as you love yours.
我熱愛我的祖國，就像你熱愛你的祖國一樣。
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N-UNCOUNT
熱愛
Love is a strong liking for something, or a belief that it is important.
例句
This is no way to encourage a love of literature...
靠這種辦法想激起對文學的熱愛是行不通的。
The French are known for their love of their language.
法國人熱愛自己的語言是出了名的。
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N-COUNT
愛人；情人；所愛之物
Your love is someone or something that you love.
例句
'She is the love of my life,' he said...
“她是我一生所愛，”他說道。
Music's one of my great loves.
音樂是我的至愛之一。
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VERB
樂于；很愿意
If you would love to have or do something, you very much want to have it or do it.
例句
I would love to play for England again...
我很樂意再次為英格蘭隊效力。
I would love a hot bath and clean clothes...
要是能洗個熱水澡、換身干凈的衣服就太好了。
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N-VOC
（用于昵稱）親愛的
Some people use love as an affectionate way of addressing someone.
例句
Well, I'll take your word for it then, love...
唔，那我就信你吧，親愛的。
Don't cry, my love.
別哭，親愛的。
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NUM
（網球比賽中的）零分
In tennis, love is a score of zero.
例句
He beat Thomas Muster of Austria three sets to love.
他3比0直取奧地利的托馬斯·蒙斯特。
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CONVENTION
（給朋友或親人寫信時結尾具名前的非正式用語）愛你（們）的
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 relation.
例句
...with love from Grandma and Grandpa.
愛你的爺爺、奶奶
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N-UNCOUNT
問候；致意
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.
例句
Please give her my love.
請代我問候她。
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PHRASE
墮入愛河；（與…）相愛
If you fall in love with someone, you start to be in love with them.
例句
I fell in love with him because of his kind nature...
我愛上他，是因為他秉性善良。
We fell madly in love.
我們瘋狂地相愛了。
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PHRASE
喜歡上；喜愛上
If you fall in love with something, you start to like it very much.
例句
Working with Ford closely, I fell in love with the cinema.
與福特的密切合作開始令我愛上了電影。
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PHRASE
對…傾心；愛慕；熱戀
If you are in love with someone, you feel romantically or sexually attracted to them, and they are very important to you.
例句
Laura had never before been in love...
勞拉之前從來沒有戀愛過。
I've never really been in love with anyone...
我從來沒有真正愛上過誰。
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PHRASE
喜歡；喜愛；熱愛
If you are in love with something, you like it very much.
例句
He had always been in love with the enchanted landscape of the West.
他一向熱愛西部的迷人風光。
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PHRASE
（…之間）彼此厭惡，水火不容
If you say that there is no love lost between two people or groups or there is little love lost between them, you mean that they do not like each other at all.
例句
There was no love lost between the two men who were supposed to be working in harmony on a mounting crisis.
在一場日益嚴峻的危機面前，本應和睦共處、通力合作的這兩個男人卻勢同水火。
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PHR-RECIP
做愛；性交
When two people make love, they have sex.
例句
Have you ever made love to a girl before?...
你和女孩有過云雨之歡嗎？
One night, after 18 months of friendship, they made love for the first and last time.
一天晚上，做了18個月的朋友之后，他們第一次也是最后一次上了床。
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PHRASE
無論如何（也不…）
If you cannot or will not do something for love or money, you are completely unable to do it or you do not intend to do it.
例句
Replacement parts couldn't be found for love or money...
替換零件怎么都找不到。
I'm not coming back up here. Never, for love nor money.
我不打算再回這里了，絕對不回了。
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PHRASE
一見鐘情
Love at first sight is the experience of starting to be in love with someone as soon as you see them for the first time.
例句
It was love at first sight, and he proposed to me six weeks later.
我們一見鐘情，他6周后就向我求婚了。