term of endearment

常見例句

雙語(yǔ)例句

• Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.
  愛稱一種昵愛的稱呼；
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• A term of affection and endearment describing a man whose personality traits reflect the opposite of his overall broad physique.
  是一種表示主觀情感的愛稱，形容一個(gè)人的個(gè)性特點(diǎn)與其外貌特征完全相反。
• English speakers borrowed the idea, and sweet + heart has been a term of endearment –particularly for romantic love –since the Middle Ages.
  英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)言者借用了這一思想，于是從中世紀(jì)開始，sweet + heart就成為了一個(gè)表達(dá)愛意的詞，尤其是浪漫的愛情。

權(quán)威例句

• To her every address she appended a term of endearment: sweetness, monkey, pie-pie.
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• They all gather around it to watch it die as it mumbles something incoherent, much in the way the prawns (another term of endearment) communicate in District 9.
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