affair

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14世紀(jì)進入英語，直接源自殖英中世紀(jì)諾曼底語的afere，意爲(wèi)人義務(wù)中要做的事情；最初源自古語的afaire，意爲(wèi)去做。

affair的意思是“事,事情,事務(wù)”,含義很廣,可指已經(jīng)發(fā)生的、所關(guān)心的或必須做的任何事情。
affair的複數(shù)形式(其前不加冠詞)不指許多件事,而指重大的或頭緒較多的事務(wù)。口語中affair(單數(shù))可模糊地或故意模稜兩可地表示“東西”“物品”或“事件”。
affair用於委婉語時指“男女之間的事”,類似於漢語中的“那事兒”。多指不正儅男女關(guān)系,也可指正常戀愛。
affair的複數(shù)形式affairs常指“情形”或“事態(tài)”，不指“多件事”。He asked me how affairs stood. 注意affairs前沒有the。
affair有時指“l(fā)ove-affair”，即“風(fēng)流韻事”。He has had an affair with the girl.
下列表達方式中用affairs，複數(shù)形式：foreign affairs (外交事務(wù))，his financial affairs (他的經(jīng)濟情況），your own affairs (你自己的事情）。

If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair.
You can refer to an important or interesting event or situation as "the ... affair."
You can describe the main quality of an event by saying that it is a particular kind of affair.
If two people who are not married to each other have an affair, they have a sexual relationship.
&rarrsee also love affair
You can use affairs to refer to all the important facts or activities that are connected with a particular subject.
&rarrsee also current affairs , state of affairs
Your affairs are all the matters connected with your life that you consider to be private and normally deal with yourself.

事務(wù)
People will not settle for simple affair management and information search on these data, but look forward to gaining knowledge from data to assistant decision-making.
人們不再滿足於對這些數(shù)據(jù)進行簡單的事務(wù)琯理和信息檢索，而期望從數(shù)據(jù)中獲取知識來輔助決策。
心理學(xué)
事情