Definition
爱美 is a verb-object compound (离合词) meaning 'to be beauty-conscious' or 'to love looking good'. The verb 爱 can separate from the noun 美 when a duration or complement is inserted, for example: 她爱了一辈子美 (she has loved beauty all her life). In everyday use the word stays together, but knowing the splitting pattern helps with advanced sentence structures.
v.o.
to be beauty-consciousto care about one's appearanceto love dressing up
Examples
- 爱美，。Tā fēicháng ài měi, měitiān dōu yào dǎban hěn jiǔ.She is very beauty-conscious; she spends a long time dressing up every day.
- ，。Tā ài le yí bèizi měi, bāshí duō suì le hái chuān gāogēnxié.She loved beauty all her life; even in her eighties she still wears high heels.
- 爱美。Xiànzài de niánqīng rén yuèláiyuè ài měi le.Young people nowadays are more and more beauty-conscious.
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