passion

名词 passion:

1. strong feeling or emotion
   同义词：passionateness
2. the trait of being intensely emotional
   同义词：heat, warmth
3. something that is desired intensely
   同义词：rage
4. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
   同义词：mania, cacoethes
5. a feeling of strong sexual desire
6. any object of warm affection or devotion;
   同义词：love
7. the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion
   同义词：Passion of Christ

1. Nothing could rekindle her extinct passion.
   她激情已逝，无从心回意转。
2. The dying embers of a former passion can still be seen in his article.
   往日激情将熄的余烬仍可从他的文章中看出来。
3. He has a passion for photography.
   他对摄影有强烈的爱好。
4. The poet expressed his burning passion for the woman he loved.
   诗人表达了他对所爱的女子火一般的激情。

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n.（名词）
A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger.
激情：强烈的感情，如爱、欣喜、憎恨或生气

Ardent love.
热烈的恋情
Strong sexual desire; lust.
强烈的性欲；色欲
The object of such love or desire.
引人暇思者：这种热恋或欲望的对象

Boundless enthusiasm:
无限的热爱：
例句：
His skills as a player don`t quite match his passion for the game.
他的水平与他对这项游戏的酷爱程度不太相配

The object of such enthusiasm:
热爱之物：这种热情的对象：
例句：
soccer is her passion.
足球是她酷爱的体育运动

An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger:
激情爆发：感情的恣意发泄，尤指怒气：
例句：
He`s been known to fly into a passion without warning.
他以动不动就发火而有名

Passion
Passion
The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion.
受难：耶稣在最后的晚餐之后，包括被钉死在十字架上的时期内所受的苦难
A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus`s sufferings.
耶稣受难的故事或图画：表现耶稣受难的故事、为此所配的音乐或以此为题材的画
Archaic Martyrdom.
【古语】 殉道
Archaic Passivity.
【古语】 受难

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Medieval Latin passiô passiôn- [sufferings of Jesus or a martyr]
源自 中世纪拉丁语 passiô passiôn- [耶稣或殉教者所受的苦难]
from Late Latin [physical suffering, martyrdom, sinful desire]
源自 后期拉丁语 [肉体折磨，受难，罪恶的欲望]
from Latin [an undergoing]
源自 拉丁语 [一次经历]
from passus [past participle of] pato [to suffer] * see pô(i)-
源自 passus [] pato的过去分词 [遭受] *参见 pô(i)-

<参考词汇><同义词>passion,fervor,fire,zeal,ardorThese nouns all denote powerful, intense emotion.
这些名词都表示强烈的、激烈的感情。
Passion is a deep, overwhelming emotion:
Passion 是一种深沉的、压倒一切的感情：
例句：
.an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame. (Edmund Burke).
.一种对名望的热烈、充沛、也许是无节制的热望. （埃德蒙·伯克）。

例句：
.There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan).The term may signify sexual desirebut can also refer to anger:
.没有什么感情比嫉妒在人类心中更根深蒂固了. （理查德·布林斯林·谢里登）。这个词可以指性欲，也可指怒气：

例句：
.He flew into a violent passion and abused me mercilessly. (H.G. Wells).
.他勃然大怒并毫不留情地骂了我. (H·G·韦尔斯）。

Fervor is great warmth and intensity of feeling:
Fervor 指感情的极度热烈和强烈：
例句：
.The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. (William James).
.兼备数学家和诗人的气质，热烈而有限度，热情而有节制，这的确是最理想的. （威廉·詹姆斯）。

Fire is burning passion:
Fire 是一阵燃烧的热情：
例句：
.In our youth our hearts were touched with fire. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.).
.当我们年青时，心中充满激情. （奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯·JR)。

Zeal is strong, enthusiastic devotion to a cause, an ideal, or a goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance:
Zeal 是指对事业、理想或目标强烈、狂热的热爱和为促进它不知疲倦的勤奋精神：
例句：
.his fervent zeal for the interests of the state. (Macaulay).
.他对国家利益的强烈热忱. （麦考利）。

例句：
.We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal. (Thomas à Kempis).
.有时我们仅仅感情用事却误以为这是热忱. （托马斯·a·肯皮斯）。

Ardor is fiery intensity of feeling:
Ardor 是感情如火般得激烈。
例句：
.the furious ardor of my zeal repressed. (Charles Churchill).See also Synonyms at feeling
.我极度的热情被抑制住了. （查尔斯·邱吉尔）参见同义词 feeling