affair

affair /ə'feə/
  • danh từ
    • việc
      • it's my affair: đây là việc (riêng) của tôi
      • mind your own affair: hãy lo lấy việc của anh
    • (số nhiều) công việc, việc làm, sự vụ
      • internal affair of a country: công việc nội bộ của một nước
      • Department of Home affair: bộ nội vụ
      • Department of Foreign affairs: bộ ngoại giao
    • chuyện tình, chuyện yêu đương
    • chuyện vấn đề
      • affair of honour: vấn đề danh dự; cuộc đọ kiếm
    • việc buôn bán; việc giao thiệp
      • a profitable affair: việc buôn bán có lời
      • to have an affair with somebody: có việc giao thiệp với ai
    • (thông tục) cái, thứ, vật, đồ, món, chuyện
      • this motor-cycle is a very complicated affair: cái mô tô này thật là một món phức tạp quá
    • (quân sự) trận đánh nhỏ
 công việc
  • foreign affair: công việc ngoại giao

    • Xem thêm: matter, thing, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour, occasion, social occasion, function, social function



    affair

    Từ điển Collocation

    affair noun

    1 event/situation

    ADJ. whole She saw the whole affair as a great joke. | glittering, grand I knew that the wedding would be a grand affair. | sordid, sorry, squalid

    VERB + AFFAIR deal with, handle Many people have criticized the way the government handled the affair. | be involved in | investigate

    PHRASES sb's involvement in the affair He has tried to play down his involvement in the affair. | a state of affairs How did this state of affairs come about? | wash your hands of the affair (= to refuse to be responsible for sth or involved in sth)

    2 sexual relationship

    ADJ. brief, casual | clandestine, secret | adulterous, extramarital | passionate, torrid | unhappy | love a torrid love affair

    VERB + AFFAIR carry on, conduct, have He's having an affair with a colleague.

    AFFAIR + VERB go on How long has the affair been going on?

    PREP. ~ between It's the story of a secret affair between a married teacher and her teenage student. | ~ with an affair with a married man

    3 sth that concerns one person/small group

    ADJ. family, personal, sb's own It's a family affair.

    PHRASES sb's affair What I do at the weekend is my affair. | no affair of sb's That's no affair of yours.

    4 affairs: important matters

    ADJ. current a current affairs programme on television | private, public | domestic, home, internal, national | community, local | European, foreign, external, international, world the minister for foreign affairs | business, financial, legal | commercial, consumer, cultural, economic, environmental, military, political, religious, social

    VERB + AFFAIR administer, arrange, attend to, conduct, manage, run I am trying to arrange my father's financial affairs. | settle, wind up | interfere in, meddle in

    PHRASES affairs of state The Cabinet will be discussing certain affairs of state. | put/set your affairs in order I want to put my affairs in order before I die. | a state of affairs the current state of affairs in schools

    Từ điển WordNet

    English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

    affairs
    syn.: business concern event festivity happening matter occasion occurrence party