核心畫面
You can picture 'lover' as love + -er: simply 'one who loves'. The heart-picture is a person whose heart is pulled toward something — first toward another person they are close to, then, by the same pull, toward a thing they can't get enough of.
lover 可以想成 love（愛）＋ -er（做這件事的人），也就是「去愛的那個人」。核心畫面比較像一個人的心被某…更多收起
lover 可以想成 love（愛）＋ -er（做這件事的人），也就是「去愛的那個人」。核心畫面比較像一個人的心被某個對象牽著走——先是被另一個親密的人牽著，之後同樣這股心動，也可以牽向某樣他百看不厭的東西。原始詞典資料5 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。
lovernoun詞源 1/ˈlʌvɚ/
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One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.
- […]loue is blinde, and louers cannot ſee / The pretty follies that themſelues commit,[…]
- Well there's a wide wide world of noble causes / And lovely landscapes to discover / But all I really want to do right now / Is find another lover
- 2
A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.
- Be my bad boy, be my man / Be my weekend lover, but don't be my friend / You can be my bad boy, but understand / That I don't need you in my life again
- 2018 January 17, "Libra Woman: Personality Traits: Love & More", Astrology.com http://www.astrology.com/libra-woman.html A Libra woman seems to always be in love - either with her long term partner or with an ever-changing series of rotating lovers.
- 3
A person who loves something.
- a lover of fine wines
- a lover of his/her own country
- 4
An informal term of address for any friend.
- All right, my lover?
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。