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B2a verypowerfulfeeling, forexampleofsexualattraction,love,hate,anger, or otheremotion: 激情，热情；强烈情感 Footballarousesa gooddealof passion amongitsfans.足球唤起了球迷们巨大的热情。 Atschool, his earlyinterestinmusicdevelopedinto anabidingpassion.他早年对音乐萌发的兴趣在求学时期发展成了一种始终不渝的热爱。 Politics andphilosophywere hislifelongpassions.政治学和哲学是他毕生热爱的学科。 Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and exampleslove - loveI have a great love and respect for her.
- adorationShe described her complete adoration of her brother.
- romanceTheir relationship was nothing but romance and bliss.
- passionThe passion had gone out of their relationship.
- infatuationNo one expected their infatuation with each other to last.
- crushHe had a crush on his French tutor.
See more results » a passion forsomething C1anextremeinterestin orwishfor doing something, such as ahobby,activity, etc.: 对…的热爱，对…的强烈爱好 Anton has aconsumingpassion forsciencefiction.安东对科幻小说痴迷不已。 passions[plural] verypowerfulfeelings: 强烈的情感Touch a man'spropertyand his passions areimmediatelyaroused.要是动了一个人的财物，那他会立刻变得异常激愤。 - As ateenager, I wasconsumedby passion for theboynextdoor.
- Thechancemeetingawoketheoldpassion between them.
- It was this passion forfastcarsthatledto hisuntimelydeathat theageof 43.
- Her writing isfullof passion andenergy.
- Flames of passionsweptthrough both of them.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesStrong feelings - afire
- all-consuming
- anguish
- anguished
- ardent
- ferociously
- fierce
- fierceness
- fit to burstidiom
- fulminating
- pungently
- rabid
- rabidly
- reinforced
- rhapsodic
- riptide
- searing
- tingle
- torrid
- virulent
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Passionate or passing interests inChristianity, thesufferinganddeathofJesusChrist 耶稣受难SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesThe Bible - people, events & places - Adam
- annunciation
- apocalypse
- apostolic
- Eden
- epistle
- epistolary
- evangelist
- Judgment Day
- Madonna
- psalm
- resurrection
- the ark
- the disciplesphrase
- the last judgment
- the Last Supper
- the Magi
- the Second Coming
- the Ten Commandments
- the Torah
See more results » passion| American Dictionarypassionnoun(EMOTION)[C/U]apowerfulemotionoritsexpression,esp. theemotionoflove,anger, orhate: [U]romanticpassion [C]Passions wererunninghigh in theaftermathof theaccident. passionnoun(STRONG INTEREST)[C]something that you arestronglyinterestedin andenjoy: She has two passions inlife– hercatsandopera. Examplesofpassionpassion Hispassionfor architecture arose from a belief that good design enhanced the life of those that experienced it.From theCambridge English Corpus He believed that only very few men are gifted with intellectual faculties that can rise above mere passions.From theCambridge English Corpus These passions, properly speaking, produce good and evil and proceed not from them, like the other affections.From theCambridge English Corpus The lyrics are mildly plaintive love poems and the music does not so much excitepassionas entertain soothingly.From theCambridge English Corpus According to some understandings of human freedom, it makes no sense to speak of a response to appetite orpassionas a voluntary act.From theCambridge English Corpus While ' craft ' was a foil for ' conscience ', virtue and liberty were complemented by - indeed, unattainable without - true religion, which moderated the passions.From theCambridge English Corpus The first draft is always the best, because that's the one you write with maximumpassionand curiosity.From theCambridge English Corpus The orchestra now intones a long, painful, hymn-like passage, spending its remainingpassion.From theCambridge English Corpus Against the rationalists they argued that some passions were positive.From theCambridge English Corpus This book, the last he published before his death last year, manages coherently to reflect all his passions.From theCambridge English Corpus Society must be guided by reason rather than the passions of superstition and religious prejudice.From theCambridge English Corpus Here he depicts a congregation in highpassion, from the wide-mouthed preacher to the disorderly listeners, weeping, eating, fainting, and otherwise carrying on.From theCambridge English Corpus Unfortunately, as the reader now knows, officials at our school lacked that commitment and hence thatpassion.From theCambridge English Corpus Even the ruthless radicalism with which the lovers embrace and pursue theirpassionto the exclusion of all else speaks to the new, harsher spirit.From theCambridge English Corpus Thispassionfor understanding was the product of conjuncture, the simultaneous explosion of global crisis-intellectual, economic, political and moral.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |