[N-COUNT 可数名词]罗曼史；恋爱；风流韵事 A romance is a relationship between two people who are in love with each other but who are not married to each other.
After a whirlwind romance the couple announced their engagement in July.
在闪电式的恋爱后，两人在7月宣布订婚。
...a holiday romance.
假日罗曼史
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]浪漫；爱意；温馨Romance refers to the actions and feelings of people who are in love, especially behaviour which is very caring or affectionate.
He still finds time for romance by cooking candlelit dinners for his girlfriend...
他仍然会找时间为女友准备烛光晚餐，制造浪漫。
He takes a rather sceptical view of love and romance.
他对爱情和浪漫持非常怀疑的态度。
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]浪漫情调；传奇色彩 You can refer to the pleasure and excitement of doing something new or exciting as romance .
We want to recreate the romance and excitement that used to be part of rail journeys.
我们想再度营造以前坐火车旅行的浪漫和兴奋。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]爱情故事；爱情小说；爱情电影 A romance is a novel or film about a love affair.
Her taste in fiction was for chunky historical romances.
她所喜欢的小说是大部头的历史爱情小说。
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]（统称）爱情小说Romance is used to refer to novels about love affairs.
Since taking up writing romance in 1967 she has brought out over fifty books.
自1967年开始写爱情小说起，她已经出了50多本书了。
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[N-VAR 可变名词](中世纪的)冒险故事，传奇文学 A medieval romance is a story about adventures such as battles and long journeys.
...Arthurian Romances.
亚瑟王的传奇故事
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[VERB 动词]和…谈恋爱 When a man romances a woman, he has a love affair with her.
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He has romanced some of the world's most eligible women.
他已经和一些非常适合结婚的女人谈过恋爱了。
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[ADJ 形容词]罗曼语系的（由拉丁语演变而成的语言，如法语、西班牙语、意大利语等）Romance languages are languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian, which come from Latin.
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ro·mance/rəʊˈmæns;ˈrəʊmæns; NAmEˈroʊmæns/
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romanceromancesromancedromancingnoun1[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◆a holiday romance假日浪漫史◆They had a whirlwind romance.他们之间有过一段短暂的风流韵事。2[uncountable ]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？☞collocationsat
marriage
3[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4[countable ]a story about a love affair 爱情故事◆She's a compulsive reader of romances.她热衷于阅读爱情故事。5[countable ]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verb1[intransitive ]to tell stories that are not true or to describe sth in a way that makes it seem more exciting or interesting than it really is 虚构（故事）；渲染2[transitive ]romancesb to have or to try to have a romantic relationship with sb 和（某人）谈情说爱；追求（某人）ro·mance/rəʊˈmæns;ˈrəʊmæns; NAmEˈroʊmæns/Ro·mance/rəʊˈmæns;ˈrəʊmæns; NAmEˈroʊmæns/adjective[only before noun ]Romancelanguages, such as French, Italian and Spanish, are languages that developed from Latin 罗曼语的（由拉丁语演变而成，如法语、意大利语、西班牙语等）Ro·mance/rəʊˈmæns;ˈrəʊmæns; NAmEˈroʊmæns/
1[countable] an exciting and often short relationship between two people who love each other → affairromance with Hemingway’s romance with his nurse inspired him to write ‘A Farewell to Arms’. Michelle married him after a whirlwind romance (=one that happens very suddenly and quickly).holiday romance British English, summer romance American English (=one that happens during a holiday) a short holiday romance2[uncountable] love, or a feeling of being in love: The romance had gone out of their relationship.3[uncountable] the feeling of excitement and adventure that is related to a particular place, activity etcromance of the romance of Hollywood4[countable] a story about the love between two people: romance novels5[countable] a story that has brave characters and exciting events: a Medieval romance
romance1 noun
romance2 verb
romanceromance2 verb
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1[intransitive] to describe things that have happened in a way that makes them seem more important, interesting etc than they really wereromance about an old man romancing about the past2[transitive] old-fashioned to try to persuade someone to love you
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