- [countable]
an exciting, usually short, relationship between two people who are in love with each other （通常指短暂的）浪漫史，爱情关系，风流韵事 Extra ExamplesEveryone knows that online romances never work out. 大家都知道网恋不会有什么结果。 Have you ever had an office romance? 你曾有过办公室恋情吗？ He was still recovering from a failed romance. 他还没有完全从失败的恋情中恢复过来。 It ruined their perfect fairy-tale romance. 这葬送了他们童话般的美满罗曼史。 They had a brief romance in the eighties. 他们在 80 年代有过一段短暂的恋情。 We're seeing more interracial romances in the movies. 我们在电影中看到越来越多的跨种族恋情。 the true story of a real-life romance 现实生活中真实的爱情故事 a summer romance 夏日情事
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- brief
- broken
- whirlwind
- …
- have
- begin
- start
- …
- blossom
- begin
- end
- …
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love or the feeling of being in love 恋爱；爱情 Spring is here and romance is in the air. 春天来了，到处洋溢着爱情的气息。 How can you put the romance back into your marriage? 怎样才能使你的婚姻再次充满绵绵爱意呢？
Collocations Marriage and divorceMarriage and divorce 结婚和离婚 Romance 恋爱 - fall/be (madly/deeply/hopelessly) in love (with somebody)
（疯狂地／深深地／无可救药地）爱上／爱着（某人） - be/believe in/fall in love at first sight
是／相信一见钟情；一见钟情 - be/find true love/the love of your life
是／找到真爱／一生的爱 - suffer (from) (the pains/pangs of) unrequited love
受单相思之苦 - have/feel/show/express great/deep/genuine affection for somebody/something
对某人／某事有着／表示出强烈的／深深的／真挚的爱慕之情 - meet/marry your husband/wife/partner/fiancé/fiancée/boyfriend/girlfriend
与丈夫／妻子／伴侣／未婚夫／未婚妻／男朋友／女朋友结识／结婚 - have/go on a (blind) date
有个／去约会／相亲 - be going out with/(especially North American English) dating a guy/girl/boy/man/woman
与一个小伙子／女生／男生／男人／女人在谈恋爱 - move in with/live with your boyfriend/girlfriend/partner
与男朋友／女朋友／伴侣同居
Weddings 婚礼 - get/be engaged/married/divorced
订婚；结婚；离婚 - arrange/plan a wedding
安排婚礼 - have a big wedding/a honeymoon/a happy marriage
举行隆重的婚礼；度蜜月；婚姻幸福 - have/enter into an arranged marriage
有一个／走入包办婚姻 - call off/cancel/postpone your wedding
取消／推迟婚礼 - invite somebody to/go to/attend a wedding/a wedding ceremony/a wedding reception
邀请某人出席／参加婚礼／结婚典礼／结婚喜宴 - conduct/perform a wedding ceremony
举行结婚典礼 - exchange rings/wedding vows/marriage vows
交换戒指；互致结婚誓言 - congratulate/toast/raise a glass to the happy couple
祝贺这对幸福的新人；为这对幸福的伉俪干杯 - be/go on honeymoon (with your wife/husband)
（与妻子／丈夫）在／去度蜜月 - celebrate your first (wedding) anniversary
庆祝第一个（结婚）纪念日
Separation and divorce 分居和离婚 - be unfaithful to/(informal) cheat on your husband/wife/partner/fiancé/fiancée/boyfriend/girlfriend
对丈夫／妻子／伴侣／未婚夫／未婚妻／男朋友／女朋友不忠 - have an affair (with somebody)
（和某人）有暧昧关系 - break off/end an engagement/a relationship
解除／终止婚约／恋爱关系 - break up with/split up with/ (informal) dump your boyfriend/girlfriend
与男友／女友分手；甩掉男友／女友 - separate from/be separated from/leave/divorce your husband/wife
和丈夫／妻子分居；离弃丈夫／妻子；与丈夫／妻子离婚 - annul/dissolve a marriage
宣布婚姻无效；解除婚姻关系 - apply for/ask for/go through/get a divorce
申请／要求／办理离婚；离婚 - get/gain/be awarded/have/lose custody of the children
获得／被判予／拥有／失去对孩子的监护权 - pay alimony/child support (to your ex-wife/husband)
（向前妻／前夫）支付生活费／子女抚养费
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsb2Most of her songs are about love and romance. 她的大多数歌曲是有关爱情和浪漫故事的。 People find romance in strange places. 人们往往能在陌生的地方找到爱情。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- true
- interracial
- find
- be in the air
- bloom
- love and romance
- [countable]
a story about a love affair 爱情故事 - [uncountable]
a feeling of excitement and adventure, especially connected to a particular place or activity 传奇色彩；浪漫氛围 the romance of travel 旅行奇趣
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a story of excitement and adventure, often set in the past 传奇故事 medieval romances 中世纪的传奇故事
Word OriginMiddle English: from Romance, originally denoting a composition in the vernacular as opposed to works in Latin. Early use denoted vernacular verse on the theme of chivalry; the sense ‘genre centred on romantic love’ dates from the mid 17th cent.