- 1互捧大會、互相吹捧的場合（帶嫌對方太肉麻、不誠實）
A love-in is a meeting, a party, or a stretch of public talk where people keep showing how much they like and admire each other. The word is almost never a compliment. You use it when the praise feels too thick — lots of hugs, kind words, and “you’re wonderful,” but little honest talk. Newspapers like it for political parties, award nights, and celebrity events. Though actually, it started in the 1960s, when young people held big outdoor gatherings they called love-ins, hoping for peace and closeness. That first meaning was hopeful. Today’s meaning has a little laugh in it, and a little dislike. It is informal. You would not put it in a careful school essay unless you were quoting someone.
「love-in」指一場聚會、派對或一段公開談話，大家不停表達彼此多喜歡、多欣賞對方。這個字幾乎不是讚美，通常用在好話太多、肉麻到讓人覺得不誠懇的時候：擁抱、讚美滿天飛，卻很少有真誠的交談。報紙常拿它來形容政黨聚會、頒獎之夜和名人活動。
這個字其實起源於 1960 年代，當時年輕人在戶外舉辦大型聚會，希望和平與親近，所以最初的意思是充滿希望的。今天的意思則多了一點嘲笑和反感。這是口語用法，正式的作文裡通常不用，除非是引述別人的話。
From the word’s history
love + -in, modelled on sit-in.
由 love 加 -in 組成，仿照 sit-in（靜坐抗議）。
組成love + -in, modelled after sit-in. The -in here is not “inside”; it names a gathering, as in sit-in.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
love-innoun
- 1
An activists' social gathering to promote love and feelings of well-being.
- Sara Davidson traces the varying paths she and two friends followed from their undergraduate years at Berkeley through sit-ins and love-ins; grass and acid; the Kennedys and the Beatles; the sexual revolution and the woman's movement.
- 2
A situation characterized by (possibly insincere) friendship and affection.
- The summer in between wasn't a total love-in of hugs and sweet family times, for us and other families.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。