#Common chinese synonyms discriminated#-2-爱护、爱戴 Both verbs express fondness and love, especially those for people. They differ only in the different connotations conveyed by the second character in each term. 护 in 爱护 means "to protect", so the term 爱护 literally expresses love and protection and its object can be either people or things. Because one loves someone or soemthing, one naturally wants to protect the person or the things. Hence the term can be used to express the idea of taking care of people or things in general because one treasures them. When its object is people, it usually shows the care of a superior for an inferior, or of a senior for a junior. *李老师很爱护她的学生。下雨的时候，总是亲自送身体不好的同学回家。 *请爱护公园里的花草 爱戴, on the other hand, connotes respect, esteem and hence support as suggested by 拥戴（to support "sb. as a leader"）. It is usually used to show ordinary people's love for their leaders, students's love for their teachers or children's love for their parents and it is usually used in the pattern of "受...的爱戴". The recipients of 爱戴 are usually people of prestige or persons who command respect. Contary to 爱护， therefore, the attitude of 爱戴 is only to be shown by an inferior towards a superior, or by a junior towards a senior. *张教授一直很受同学们的爱戴 *这位总统的错误使他失去了人民对他的爱戴。 Exercise 2 1. 校长三年来辛勤工作，赢得了全校老师与学生的 （ ）。 2. 天黑了，不要看书了。你得（ ）你的眼睛。