affectionately
深情地,亲切地,深情的,深情款款
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- : in a way that shows or is characterized by affection or love: Georgia’s favorite pet is a Russian tortoise, whom she has affectionately named Speedbump.
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Life for Samantha, or “Sam” as she is affectionately known, was fairly ordinary until 2013.
Since then he’s roamed widely in what he affectionately calls the Yellow Submarine.
For some, that translates to relationships that accelerate way too fast, an experience affectionately dubbed “apocalypsing.”
“Today, the whole world shall know his name,” stated one trending post praising Gill, which went on to use an offensive term for people with developmental disorders that forum users affectionately call themselves.
Boston, affectionately nicknamed “Beantown” is one of the nation’s oldest, and most historic cities.
Everyone will laugh, the word “nerd” will be used affectionately, and the conversation will drift on.
Or as Jon Goldwater, publisher and co-CEO of Archie Comics, affectionately calls him, “Archie West.”
A liberal's conception of tolerance presupposes what we once affectionately called "the Enlightenment."
As the call clicked off, she called out affectionately, “Bye, mom, I love you.”
Pauline Phillips, known affectionately to the nation by her pen name Abigail Van Buren, died Wednesday at age 94.
Here the speaker, putting her hand before her mouth, coughed again, and looked affectionately at the elder Mr. Weller.