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動詞

fall in love (third-person singular simple present falls in love, present participle falling in love, simple past fell in love, past participle fallen in love)

1. (intransitive, of a person, animate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of love, particularly romantic love.

   I fell in love with him the moment I first saw him.

   Have you ever fallen in love?

   • 1975, Brian Potter, Dennis Lambert, “It Only Takes a Minute”, in In the City, performed by Tavares:

     It only takes a minute girl / To fall in love

   • 2016 February 5, Wesley Schultz and Jeremy Fraites, “Ophelia”, in Cleopatra‎, performed by The Lumineers:

     Oh, Ophelia / You've been on my mind, girl, since the flood / Oh, Ophelia / Heaven help a fool who falls in love

   • 2019, Cavetown, “Home”‎:

     Often, I am upset / That I cannot fall in love, but I guess / This avoids the stress of falling out of it

   • 2020 February 27, Doja Cat, “Doja Cat - Say So (Official Video)” (00:42 from the start)‎, archived from the original on 27 February 2020:

     It's been a long time since you fell in love / You ain't coming out your shell, you ain't really been yourself / Tell me, what must I do? (Do tell, my love) / 'Cause luckily I'm good at reading / I wouldn't bug him, but he won't stop cheesin'

2. (intransitive, reciprocal) To come to have feelings of love towards each other.

   They met, fell in love, got married, and lived happily ever after.

   • 2017, Ed Sheeran, “Perfect”:

     'Cause we were just kids when we fell in love
     Not knowing what it was
     I will not give you up this time.

3. (intransitive, of a person, inanimate object following "with") To come to have feelings of intense liking directed at another person or a thing.

   I have just fallen in love with Rome!

同意語

• develop feelings
• enamour

反意語

• fall out of love
• disenamour

派生語

• falling in love, falling-in-love (noun)