要處理的事務
把一件事變成一整片事：不是單一事件，而是持續要打理的所有事情。這個意思幾乎都用複數 affairs，看是誰的事就分成公家的和私人的。
public/political affairs · noun · B2
Public or political events and activities, especially in a country or the world.
事務
核心畫面
Picture something that has happened and now has to be dealt with — an incident, a piece of business, a matter someone is caught up in. Affair keeps that shape everywhere: it names a matter without saying much about it, so the words around it do the describing.
可以想成：一件已經發生、現在得處理的事——一樁事件、一項業務、一件某人牽涉在裡面的事情。affair 到哪裡都保持這…更多收起
可以想成：一件已經發生、現在得處理的事——一樁事件、一項業務、一件某人牽涉在裡面的事情。affair 到哪裡都保持這個形狀：它只說「有這麼一件事」，細節交給旁邊的字去講，所以它常常跟形容詞一起出現。From the picture
祕密的感情關係
還是「某人牽涉在裡面的一件事」，只是這件事發生在兩個人之間、而且不公開。因為太常用，現在單獨說 an affair 幾乎都會被聽成這個意思。
secret romantic relationship · noun · B2
A secret romantic relationship, usually when one of the people is married to someone else.
外遇／婚外情
固定說法：這是誰的事
把「這件事屬於誰」單獨拿出來講：這是他要處理的事，別人不必插手。這個意思靠所有格撐著，不會單獨出現。
personal matter · noun · B2
Something that concerns only you, so other people should not get involved in it.
某人的事
口語：那個玩意兒
把「一個東西」講得含糊帶點好笑，就像指著它說「那個什麼玩意兒」。同樣是 affair 只提供一個空位，形容詞負責描述。
thing/gadget (informal) · noun · B2
Used, often in an amused way, to describe an object or machine of a certain kind.
（口語）玩意兒
Also in this word
shocking event · noun · B2
An event, or a set of connected events, especially a shocking or embarrassing one.
事件
kind of event · noun · B2
Used to describe what kind of event something was, such as a party or celebration.
（形容場合的）活動
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
affairnoun/əˈfɛə/
- 1
Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.
- a difficult affair to manage
- Responsibility is my affair, reciprocity is his.
- 2
Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
- an affair of honor
- an affair of love
- 3
governmentmilitarypoliticsAn action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
- 4
A material object (vaguely designated).
- He used a hook-shaped affair with a long handle to unlock the car.
- This garden is a ramshackle affair.
- 5
An adulterous relationship, chiefly of a married person. (from affaire de cœur, affair of the heart).
- When Martin's wife found out about his affair with her best friend, she asked for a divorce.
- Mary had an affair with a woman from the gym.
- 6
An otherwise illicit romantic relationship, such as with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).
- Jerry's girlfriend said she wanted to go steady, but she was in an affair with one of his team-mates.
- 7
A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.
- I was his affair and he was a little boy toy to me... Together it was our little scandal.
- Turns out she's married; he was her affair.
- 8
A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
- She also guessed that Lady Gladstone had not told them the affair had been planned some time ago. “We are looking forward to visiting you on Friday, Lady Gladstone,” said Harriet. “Geoffrey thought I might have forgotten because you sent us your invitation such ages ago, but I said, 'My dear brother, how could I possibly forget an invitation from Lady Gladstone?'“ “How very odd,” commented the comte lazily. “Lady Gladstone was just telling us it was an impromptu affair.”
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
archaicslangThe (male or female) genitals.
- ... ſhe, with the greateſt effrontery imaginable, unbuttons his breeches, and removing his ſhirt, draws out his affair, ſo ſhrunk and diminiſh’d that I could not but remember the difference, now creſt-fallen, or just faintly lifting its head: but our experinc’d matron very ſoon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to ſwell to that ſize and erection I had before ſeen it up to.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。