af.fair

affair的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [əˈfɛər]
KK音标发音： [əˈfɛr]

affair的词性：
n.（名词）

1. Something done or to be done; business.
事情：已做或要做的事情；事件

2. affairs Transactions and other matters of professional or public business:
affairs 事务：业务和其他职业上的事情或公事：

affairs of state.
国事

3. An occurrence, an event, or a matter:
事变，大事，事件：

The senator's death was a tragic affair.
参议员之死是个悲剧

4. A social function.
社会作用

5. An object or a contrivance:
东西，物件：物品或发明物：

Their first car was a ramshackle affair.
他们的第一辆车破烂不堪

6. A matter of personal concern.
个人的事：与个人有关的事

7. affairs Personal business:
affairs 私事：

get one's affairs in order.
处理好个人事务

8. A matter causing public scandal and controversy:
社会轶闻：引起大众丑闻及争议的事件：

the Dreyfus affair.
德雷福斯丑闻

9. A romantic and sexual relationship, sometimes one of brief duration, between two people who are not married to each other.
风流韵事，绯闻：两个没有婚姻关系的人之间浪漫的和性的关系，有时是短暂的

affair的词源：

10. Middle English affaire
中古英语 affaire

11. from Old French afaire
源自 古法语 afaire

12. from a faire [to do]
源自 a faire [做]

13. a [to] from Latin ad * see ad-
a [向] 源自 拉丁语 ad *参见 ad-

14. faire [to do] from facere * see dh?-
faire [做] 源自 facere *参见 dh?-

affair， business， concern， lookout

15. The central meaning shared by these nouns is “something that involves one personally”:
这些名词所共有的中心意思为“有关个人的事情”：

I won't comment on that;
我不能评论那件事；

it's not my affair.
它不关我的事。

That's none of your business.
这不关你的事。

Mind your own concerns.
别多管闲事。

It's your lookout to see that your application is filed on time.
你应注意去看看你的申请是否准时归档