亚洲网紅露点

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love-hate relationship

[ luhv-heyt ri-ley-shuhn-ship ]

noun

  1. a state of ambivalence in which one feels both love and hate for someone or something:

    Transylvania has something of a love-hate relationship with Dracula tourism.

    The love-hate relationship between directors and actors is entertainingly dissected in this kiss-and-tell memoir from the directing frontlines.



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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of love-hate relationship1

First recorded in 1920鈥25
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His peculiar love-hate relationship with Europe 鈥 embodied this week in the launch of a ruinous trade war, a policy that comes with multiple 鈥淒o not use鈥 labels affixed in the 1890s and 1930s 鈥 may seem inexplicable or anomalous, but arises from a long history of mutual incomprehension.

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I said earlier that Trump had a love-hate relationship with Europe, and I meant it: He鈥檚 a lot closer to the befuddled accidental-tourist character in plaid shorts and flip-up sunglasses, gazing open-mouthed at the Changing of the Guard or wondering why there aren鈥檛 tours of the Bastille, than the smooth assassin out of a jewelry commercial.

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鈥淚 kind of have a love-hate relationship with the Innocence Project,鈥 he said.

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The anchor had a sense of humor about the audience鈥檚 love-hate relationship with him.

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鈥淚 didn鈥檛 live out a lot of the things that Kate did in the movie,鈥 she says of the onetime tornado chaser played by Daisy Edgar-Jones, 鈥渂ut I know what it鈥檚 like going home and having that heartbreak, and it鈥檚 like a bittersweet feeling of having a love-hate relationship with the place that you鈥檙e from.鈥

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