It's a much older term of endearment.

“lovey”是个已经由来已久的昵称词。

It is a term of endearment, it means small or tiny.

这是个爱的术语，它的意思是小的或微小的。

She had to know if he even pretended to love her. Did he address tender endearments to her?

她必须弄清楚他是不是在假装爱她。

Instead of answering the endearments of her lover, she seemed more dead than alive.

她没有回应爱人的爱抚， 反而像是生不如死。

Do you think it needs more terms of endearment?

Issac：认为它需要更多的爱称吗？

It's derogatory! - No it's a term of endearment!

是贬义的！- 不， 这是种爱称！

Mr. Pendragon got up, looking a little confused by these family endearments.

Pendragon 先生站了起来，对这些家庭的爱戴显得有些困惑。

Oh, is that what this is about, endearment?

觉得这是搞好关系的问题吗？

She started at the endearment, though it had been spoken advisedly without fervour.

她被这种亲切感吓了， 然这话是经过深思熟虑后没有热情地说出来的。

" My love, " " you are my love" - that would be a term of endearment.

“我的爱人”、“是我的爱人”——那将是个亲切的称呼。

Can I bear the consciousness that every endearment he bestows is a sacrifice made on principle?

我能忍受他给予的每份爱意都是原则上的牺牲吗？

They sat motionless, in their attitude of confident endearment, as if some strange death had surprised them.

他们动不动地坐着， 副自信而亲切的姿态，仿佛突然间发生了某种奇怪的死亡。

And the mystery was that from their dull faces, their dull endearments, the miracle of Ronald should have sprung.

神秘的是，罗纳德的奇迹本应从他们呆滞的面孔、呆滞的亲昵中诞生。

His repeated promises confirm her hopes: embraces and endearments, which increase the ardour of her desires, overmaster her soul.

他再的承诺证实了她的希望：拥抱和亲昵，增加了她欲望的热情， 控制了她的灵魂。

In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by all the solaces and endearments of the harem.

事实上，这位绅士是个奢侈放纵的土耳其贵族，在水下世界里游来游去，周围陪伴的尽是娇妻美妾，享尽温柔。

Then they sat together on the couch calling over those names they had made for each other, new combinations of endearments ages old.

然后他们起坐在沙发上， 呼唤着他们为彼此起的那些名字， 古老的爱意的新组合。

" A kiss, " I observed, " does not seem to satisfy him: he wishes for food, and seems disappointed by these unsatisfactory endearments" .

“个吻，”我观察到，“似乎不能满足他：他想要食物，似乎对这些不能令人满意的爱恋感到失望”。

As if to take back her words she held him more closely to her, murmuring endearments and pressing her body down the whole length of his.

仿佛要收回她的话，她把他抱得更紧了，低声说着爱意，把她的身体压在他的整个长度上。

Then we've got: " me oul' segotia" , me old flower, and that's an expression that you would use as a term of endearment to someone.

然后我们有：“me oul'segotia”，me old flower，这是种表达爱意的式。

He said the New Zealand government openly endorses the term and that it was used as a term of endearment and as a means of identifying as a New Zealander.

他表示新西兰政府公开支持该词，而且该词被用作是“表示亲昵的术语，是鉴别新西兰人身份的式”。