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单词 infatuation
释义
infatuation
noun[CorU]
uk
/ɪnˌfætʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ɪnˌfætʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
strongbut not usuallylastingfeelingsofloveorattraction:
（通常短期）热恋，着迷
It's just an infatuation. She'll get over it.这只是一时的痴迷，她会从中恢复过来的。
No oneexpectedtheirinfatuationwitheach other to last.没有人认为他们的热恋会持久。
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(Definition ofinfatuationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinfatuation

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Or it might transpire in a strangeinfatuationwith the commonplace, so long as this ordinariness is clearly established as a new aesthetic.
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I had no love, merely aninfatuationfor the place.
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The playwright made no secret of his passionate feelings towards the actress and hisinfatuationhad made him the subject of ridicule.
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As discussed, the novel was written and has been received by many critics as a "lesson" for youth against illusory infatuations.
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Until further arguments are presented, we are inclined to think that the interest in errors and biases is indeed the kind ofinfatuationthat we diagnosed it to be.
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Indeed, the case history figures her almost as a victim of seduction, a woman whose "infatuation" with sectarian medicine leads to her death from, literally, a broken heart.
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The unfortunate patient's homeopathic faith - an "infatuation," almost an "insanity" - becomes instead the agent of evil, standing in for the physical cause of her death from cardiac causes.
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The ardour of thatinfatuationshows no sign of cooling.
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Hisinfatuationwith money supply seems to have come to an end and the theory behind the seven lean years has been dissipated.
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Hisinfatuationwith the horse, which grew rapidly and entirely changed the course of his life, was beautifully described.
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It is with détente that we have aninfatuation, or call it an obsession—and a dangerous obsession at that.
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They may think that they are in love, but in fact it is sometimes just "adolescentinfatuation".
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I should call it a great act ofinfatuationand delusion.
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I must say that it was touching, theinfatuationfor the fish that gets away—a deservedinfatuation, too.
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But this is not a suddeninfatuationwith them.
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