matter/affair/business/concern/thing.导航词义：事情

1. matter:n. 事情，事务.通常指关乎利益、命运等的紧要事务，必须予以考虑或解决。

This is a serious matter that you need to concentrate on.

这件事很严重，你需要集中精力解决。

This is a matter for the manager to decide.

这是该由经理决定的事。

2. affair:n. 事件，事情.指令人印象深刻的重大事件或具有某种特点的不寻常之事。

Who first reported the Watergate affair?

谁最先报道了水门事件？

The wedding was a very grand affair.

婚礼场面非常隆重。

3. business:n. 事情，事务.指需要完成或讨论的重要事务，也指归某人管的事或某人持有某种看法的事情。

Let's get down to the unfinished business.

我们来处理尚未了结的事务吧。

My family life is my personal business.

我的家庭生活是我的私事。

He regarded homework as serious business.

他把作业当作重要的事。

4. concern:n. 事情，关注的事.指关系到某人切身利益、引起其关注或担忧的重要事情。

What is a mother's main concern?

当妈妈的最关心什么？

How to control inflation has become a major concern for consumers.

如何控制通货膨胀已成为消费者关注的重要问题。

5. thing:n. 事情.普通用词，词义最为广泛，可指任何事实、事件、情况、行为等。

That strange thing worried him a lot.

那件奇怪的事情让他十分不安。

The first thing to do is to improve their working conditions.

首要的事是改善他们的工作环境。

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1·The whole affair ended in tragedy.

整个事件以悲剧而告终。《牛津词典》

2·Her mistake was to blab about their affair.

她的错误在于泄露了他们的风流韵事。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·The whole affair is still shrouded in secrecy.

整个事件依旧秘而不宣。《牛津词典》

4·He was completely unaware of the whole affair.

他对整件事情一无所知。《牛津词典》

5·She openly flaunted her affair with the senator.

她公开夸耀与参议员的恋情。《牛津词典》

6·The affair hardly reflected well on the president.

这个事件很难让人对那位总统有好印象。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

7·The newspapers exaggerated the whole affair wildly.

报章毫无根据地夸大了整个事件。《牛津词典》

8·The administration has mishandled the whole affair.

政府错误地处理了整个事件。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·The whole affair was blown up out of all proportion.

整个事件被渲染得太过了。《牛津词典》

10·The affair could tarnish the reputation of the senator.

这一事件可能有损那位参议员的名声。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

事情

1·But this isn't a simple black and white affair, Marianne.

但这不是一件简单的非对即错的事情，玛丽安娜。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Thanks to her skilful handling of the affair, the problem was averted.

多亏她对事情处理得巧妙，才避免了麻烦。《牛津词典》

3·This is indeed a terrible affair!

这真是一件可怕的事情！

4·That was not the end of the affair.

那并非是这个事情的终结。

5·That is your affair; we do not interfere with your problems.

那是你自己的事情：我们不干涉你们的问题。

事

1·How I spend my money is my affair.

我如何用钱是我自己的事。《牛津词典》

2·Lunch was a leisurely affair.

吃午餐曾是一件从容的事。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Her son's affair had humiliated and shamed her.

她儿子的事丢了她的脸、令她羞愧。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·I was told to go to Denver for this interview. It was a very amusing affair. Anyhow, I got the job.

我被告知去丹佛参加这个面试。那是件非常有意思的事。如此这般之后，我得到了这份工作。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·The media, meanwhile, has blown hot and cold over the affair.

同时，媒体对这件事的态度一直摇摆不定。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

事件

1·The whole affair ended in tragedy.

整个事件以悲剧而告终。《牛津词典》

2·The whole affair is still shrouded in secrecy.

整个事件依旧秘而不宣。《牛津词典》

3·The affair hardly reflected well on the president.

这个事件很难让人对那位总统有好印象。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·The newspapers exaggerated the whole affair wildly.

报章毫无根据地夸大了整个事件。《牛津词典》

5·The administration has mishandled the whole affair.

政府错误地处理了整个事件。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

事务

1·Figures like Martin Luther and John Calvin recognized marriage as a civil matter, a worldly affair, and not under the aegis of the church.

像马丁·路德和约翰·加尔文等人，认为婚姻是民事问题，一个俗世的事务，不需要在教会的庇护下结婚。

2·He has been careful to distance himself from the Yukos affair.

他一直都小心翼翼远离尤科斯的所有事务。

3·Any expense necessary for handling the entrusted affair advanced by the agent shall be repaid with interest by the principal.

受托人为处理委托事务垫付的必要费用，委托人应当偿还该费用及其利息。

4·Upon discharge of the agency contract, the agent shall render an account of the entrusted affair.

委托合同终止时，受托人应当报告委托事务的结果。

5·Looking on after all the years, is a familiar face who sit in the stand week in and week out, now at the age of 74 he continues with his United affair.

回头看看，即使过了那么多年，只要曼联有比赛他就会出现在看台上，每个周那个无比熟悉的面孔都出现在那个位子上，不论风吹日晒，不管阴晴圆缺，他一直在那里看着曼联，现今已经74岁高龄的他依旧为曼联那些事务操劳忙碌着。

风流韵事

1·Her mistake was to blab about their affair.

她的错误在于泄露了他们的风流韵事。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·She indicated no curiosity in the woman who had carried on an affair with her husband for more than a year and then murdered him.

她显得对这个跟她丈夫有过一年多风流韵事后谋杀了他的女人没有任何好奇。

3·Rosenberg and Marjorie hid their affair.

罗森博格和马约莉隐藏了他们的风流韵事。

4·But I don't see why I should put my head in a noose to conceal his affair.

但我不明白我为什么要自讨苦吃，去帮他隐瞒他的风流韵事。

5·Jane's affair was the coup DE grace to her disintegrating marriage.

简的风流韵事结束了她正在破碎的婚姻。

私事

1·How much they work, and what they buy, is their own affair.

他们工作多久，他们购买什么，都是他们个人的私事。

2·Even someone recovering from surgery has an opinion about the starlet’s affair, the underdog in the playoffs or the big election around the corner.

即使是一个刚刚从手术中回复的人，也可能想八卦一下那些明星的私事，季后赛的输赢以及选举的胜利等新闻。

3·Your friend burdens you with a secret: Your friend trusts you by sharing the details of her affair, but keeping the secret has weighed on you emotionally.

朋友与你分享秘密，使你承受压力。你的朋友信任你，与你分享她的私事。

4·It's my affair, not yours!

这是我的私事，不是你的！

5·Though traditionally regarded as a private family affair for years, wife-beating is now socially and legally unacceptable.

虽然多年来传统上认为这是家庭私事，殴妻现在在社会上和法律上都不可接受了。

绯闻

1·News of his affair eventually reached her ears.

他的绯闻终于传到她耳朵里。《牛津词典》

2·Just a couple of lines. It indicated there had been rumors of an affair between me and the terminal secretary and that this was a written warning for insubordination.

“这是一封很简短的信，”他回忆说，“只有短短的几行字，信里面表示最近有很多关于我和秘书间的绯闻在流传，我立刻明白这是一个对我不服从上级命令的书面警告。”

3·The couple, who met in Rome while filming the 1962 film Cleopatra, were both married when they launched into a torrid affair.

这对夫妻，他们在罗马相遇，那是他们正在拍摄1962年的电影《克里奥·帕特拉》。当他们深陷沸沸扬扬的私通绯闻中时，他们结婚了。

4·You had an affair with a superior officer's wife.

曾与你上司的妻子有过绯闻。

5·The question many asked in 1998—Why on earth would the most powerful man in the world jeopardize his job for an affair with a young woman?

在1998年，许多人都问这样的问题：”到底为什么世界上最有权势的 男人会为了和一 名年轻女子产生绯闻而来让自己的工作处于危险当中？

(1)state of affairs事态；情势

(1)love affair风流韵事；强烈爱好

(1)have an affair有外遇；通奸；婚外恋

(1)private affair私事

(1)business affair[律]商务

(1)civil affair民政事务