passions

基本解释

Henry and I are lucky we know what our passions are.
我和享利很幸運，我們知道自己的愛好是什麽。
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Everyone should think about what passions or interests they have.
人人都應該想一想自己有什麽樣的愛好或者興趣。
The first are those passions with which, for certain reasons, there is little or no sympathy: the second are those with which, for other reasons, there is the greatest.
第一種的激情，由於某些原因幾乎得不到同情或者根本得不到同情；第二種的激情，由於某些其他的原因會得到人們強烈的同情。

"I think they bring a little life to this street. I like them! I think that they are uniquely representative of the United States, of different cultures, our passions.
Hobbes regarded these passions in many ways as barbaric, as uncivilized and warlike and to some degree he was right.
霍佈斯把這些人具有的品質稱之爲,野蠻的，未開化的和好戰的,他的這一論斷衹有在一定意義上是正確的。
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For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.
對於柏拉圖，哲學的首要任務，是透過對我們的欲望設限,來治療我們的激情。
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In the mid-1980s Aunt Mary married Viscount Eccles, who shared her intellectual and artistic passions.
FORBES: Fact and Comment

Passion is strong sexual feelings toward someone.
Passion is a very strong feeling about something or a strong belief in something.
If you have a passion for something, you have a very strong interest in it and like it very much.

情感
The human nature is distinguished into two parts, namely passions and understanding.
休謨把人性區分爲兩個主要部分,那就是情感和知性。
道德感