Romance

(noun.) a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life.

(noun.) the group of languages derived from Latin.

(verb.) tell romantic or exaggerated lies; 'This author romanced his trip to an exotic country'.

(verb.) have a love affair with.

(adj.) relating to languages derived from Latin; 'Romance languages' .

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• This slight sense of romance stirred her like an intoxicant. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Will you allow me to note that little romance down, Sir? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Oh, that is our one family romance. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• For as to secrecy, Henry is quite the hero of an old romance, and glories in his chains. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Ah, she said, I envy Gerty that power she has of dressing up with romance all our ugly and prosaic arrangements! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But romance-writers might know nothing of love, judging by the way in which they treat of it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Ay but, by the rood of Bromeholm, there was no romance in the matter! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• For them stage-coaches will have become romances--a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The fables we meet with in poems and romances put this entirely out of the question. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• My dear, romances are pernicious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The most romantic of romances! 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Jo had never tried this style before, contenting herself with very mild romances for _The Spread Eagle_. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• So she made her wedding gown herself, sewing into it the tender hopes and innocent romances of a girlish heart. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Oh yes, I heard all the romances about him in London; and no doubt one story is as true as another. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I never romanced to you nor to anybody you know. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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