summer romance• It was just a summer romance.• Isabelle Pech pursued Richard Burley to Britain after he suddenly broke off their summer romance and disappeared.
romance2 verb
1PERFECT[intransitiveI] to describe things that have happened in a way that makes them seem more important, interesting etc than they really were 夸张,渲染
romance about
an old man romancing about the past
天花乱坠地大谈往事的老人
2.[transitiveT] old-fashioned to try to persuade someone to love you 向…求爱,追求〔某人〕
Examples from the Corpus
romance• The experts seem to be romancing about figments of their imagination; he can see nothing that they are talking about.
Originromance1
(1200-1300)Old Frenchromans“French, something written in French”, from Latinromanicus“Roman”
1love affair愛情故事ADJECTIVE | VERB + ROMANCE | ROMANCE + VERBADJECTIVE➤brief短暫的羅曼史▸➤broken令人心碎的羅曼史▸➤whirlwind旋風般的羅曼史◇They married after a whirlwind romance.旋風般的戀愛之後他們結婚了。➤budding剛萌芽的羅曼史◇the budding romance between Richard and Elise理查德和埃莉斯之間剛萌芽的戀情➤holiday, summer假日/夏日羅曼史➤office辦公室戀情◇Have you ever had an office romance?你曾有過辦公室戀情嗎?➤online網戀◇Everyone knows that online romances never work out.大家都知道網戀不會有什麼結果。➤teenage少年情事➤interracial (especially NAmE) 跨種族戀情◇We're seeing more interracial romances in the movies.我們在電影中看到越來越多的跨種族戀情。➤fairy-tale童話般的羅曼史◇It ruined their perfect fairy-tale romance.這葬送了他們童話般的美滿羅曼史。➤real-life現實生活中的羅曼史◇the true story of a real-life romance現實生活中真實的愛情故事➤doomed注定不會有好結果的羅曼史➤failed失敗的戀情◇He was still recovering from a failed romance.他還沒有完全從失敗的戀情中恢復過來。VERB + ROMANCE➤have有風流韻事◇They had a brief romance in the eighties.他們在 80 年代有過一段短暫的戀情。➤begin, start開始羅曼史ROMANCE + VERB➤blossom愛情綻放➤begin羅曼史開始➤end羅曼史結束romance
noun²
2romantic feeling浪漫的感覺ADJECTIVE | VERB + ROMANCE | ROMANCE + VERB | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤true真正的浪漫➤interracial (especially NAmE) 跨種族的戀情VERB + ROMANCE➤find找到浪漫的感覺◇People find romance in strange places.人會在陌生的地方找到浪漫的感覺。ROMANCE + VERB➤be in the air愛情發生◇Could romance be in the air for the young prince?年輕王子會不會在談戀愛?➤bloom愛情之花盛開PHRASES➤love and romance愛情和浪漫故事◇Most of her songs are about love and romance.她的大多數歌曲是有關愛情和浪漫故事的。