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”