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    Referring to love in the idiom 'fall in love' with 爱河 (àihé)

    Description & Modification

    Structure

    坠入 + 爱河

    Explanation

    爱河 (àihé) literally means "river of love." It appears most often in the set phrase 坠入爱河, meaning "to fall in love," and is a literary or poetic way to describe romantic love.

    Examples

    • 他们大学时坠入爱河，毕业后就结婚了。

      Tāmen dàxué shí zhuìrù àihé, bìyè hòu jiù jiéhūn le.

      They fell in love in college and got married after graduation.

    • 谁能想到这两个人会坠入爱河呢？

      Shuí néng xiǎngdào zhè liǎng gè rén huì zhuìrù àihé ne?

      Who would have thought these two people would fall in love?

    • 电影里的男女主角很快就坠入了爱河。

      Diànyǐng lǐ de nánnǚ zhǔjué hěn kuài jiù zhuìrù le àihé.

      The male and female leads in the movie quickly fell in love.

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