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1 lover

2 sweetheart

1 mistress

2 secret lover

3 extramarital lover

1 In the eyes of the lover, a famous beauty (idiom). Beauty in the eye of the beholder

1 lit. in the eyes of a lover appears 西施[Xī shī] (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder

1 lover (of art, sports etc)

2 amateur

3 enthusiast

4 fan

1 married woman's lover

1 Zhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous as fearsome fighter and lover of wine

1 paying more attention to a lover than friends (idiom)

2 to value sex over friendship

1 new flame

2 new lover

1 to fall in love

2 to love sb or sth dearly (lover, or art)

1 woman's lover

1 (of a woman) to take a lover

1 mistress

2 second wife

3 lover

1 lover

2 sweetheart

1 lover

2 partner

1 (of a woman) to take a lover

1 lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom)

2 fig. a wife having an illicit lover

1 (of an uneducated person) to mingle with the cognoscenti

2 to pose as a culture lover

3 to be a culture snob

4 having pretensions to culture

1 Lin Daiyu, female character in The Dream of Red Mansions, cousin and thwarted lover of Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉|贾宝玉