love affair

柯林斯词典

1. N-COUNT A love affair is a romantic and usually sexual relationship between two people who love each other but who are not married or living together. 風流韻事
...a stressful love affair with a married man. …和一個已婚男子的一段備受壓力的風流戀情。
2. N-SING If you refer to someone's love affair with something, you mean that they like it a lot and are very enthusiastic about it. (對某物的) 強烈興趣
...the American love affair with firearms. …美國人對槍支的強烈興趣。