emotion既可数,也不可数。在表示喜怒哀乐愁等某一种具体感情时,是可数名词,可以在前面加an,也可以用复数emotions。在表示与“理智”相对的“情感、感性”时,是不可数名词。
Jealousy is a primal emotion.
嫉妒是一种原始情感。
It is impossible to separate belief from emotion.
信仰和感情是分不开的。
They were caught up in a whirling vortex of emotion.
他们陷入了感情旋涡。
Happiness was an emotion that Jerry was having to relearn.
幸福是一种杰瑞当时不得不再学习的感情。
She felt she was being dragged into a whirlpool of emotion.
她觉得自己被卷入了感情的旋涡。
The decision was based on emotion rather than rational thought.
这个决定不是基于理性的思考而是基于感情作出的。
Almost the first lesson they learn is how to dissociate emotion from reason.
第一堂课上他们学的几乎就是如何将情感和理智分开。
Data is said to lack an emotion chip.
据说,数据缺少情感芯片。
Emotion should never be a substitute for sound policy.
感情不能代替政策。
Our world is based on sense and beautified by emotion.
我们的世界建立在感官之上,并且由情绪来美化。