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单词 romantic
释义
romantic1 adjectiveromantic2 noun
romanticro‧man‧tic1 /rəʊˈmæntɪk, rə- $ roʊ, rə-/ ●●○ adjective Entry menu
MENU FOR romanticromantic1 showing love2 relating to love3 story/film4 beautiful5 not practical6 Romantic art/literature etc
Word Origin
WORD ORIGINromantic1
Origin:
1600-1700 French romantique, from Old French romans; ROMANCE1
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a romantic comedy in which Meg Ryan plays a single mother looking for love
  • I'm in the most stable romantic relationship I've ever had.
  • I've always thought it would be so romantic to be serenaded.
  • Paris is such a romantic city.
  • We shared a gourmet meal in a romantic, candle-lit restaurant.
  • We went for a lovely romantic walk by the lake.
  • Why don't you send him a little romantic card and see how he reacts?
  • You have a very romantic and foolish idea of science.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Again, more men than women endorsed the romantic ideal by answering yes.
  • His proper names show the same self-conscious striving for a romantic atmosphere.
  • I saw a picture of Jane Asher in the same suit at a romantic fiction judging evening.
  • In all of these depictions, parenthood is romantic, rollicking fun in which men are integrally involved.
  • It is part of the romantic ideal that the promise of a beautiful woman is the promise of eternal perfection.
  • Like Modigliani, Jeanne was a romantic, a mysterious young woman with soulful blue eyes and a generous mouth.
  • Others find vinyl recordings warmer, more romantic.
  • Then a quieter, more romantic one.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatortypes of film
a film that is intended to make you feel frightened, for example one in which people get attacked by strange creatures, or in which dead people come to life
informal a film that is intended to make you feel frightened, in which people are suddenly violently attacked and killed
a film that is intended to make you laugh and usually has a happy ending
a film about life in the future, often with people or creatures who live in other parts of the universe
a film that tells an exciting story about murder or crime
a film about cowboys and life in the 19th century in the American West
a film about people fighting a war
a film that has a lot of exciting events in it, for example people fighting or chasing each other in cars
a film about people who are on a long journey in a car, and the adventures they have while they are travelling
a film that is intended to make you laugh, about two people who meet and have a romantic relationship
a film made using photographs of models or drawings, which are put together to look as if they are moving
a long film in which a lot of things happen, for example one about a period in history or the whole of someone's life
showing that you love someone
someone who is affectionate shows that they are very fond of another person by the way they behave towards them, for example by holding or kissing them: · She's a very affectionate child.· He gave me an affectionate hug and then left.
something that is romantic gives you a feeling of love for your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife etc - use this about places, or things people do or say: · We went for a lovely romantic walk by the lake.· Paris is such a romantic city.· I've always thought it would be so romantic to be serenaded.
behaving in a way that shows that you love someone, especially a member of your family: · Her husband was loving and supportive throughout her long illness.· She was a devoted wife and a very loving mother.
involving strong feelings of sexual love: · She longed to have a mad, passionate affair with him.· As they got to know each other better, their love grew deeper and more passionate.
loving and gentle, especially because you are concerned about someone: · When she spoke, her voice was full of tender concern.· Fleury saw an expression of tender devotion come over his father's face.tender loving care: · I was feeling rather fragile, and in need of tender loving care.
spending all your time thinking about someone you love, especially someone who does not love you: · He knew he was behaving like a lovesick teenager.
very loving and loyal towards someone: · With the support of his devoted wife, he carried on writing until the age of 73.· They remained devoted friends for many years.
: doting mother/grandparent/husband etc a mother, grandparent etc that shows that they love someone, especially someone younger, by paying them a lot of attention: · The doting grandmother smiled and chatted about how well the boy was doing at school.· She managed to find a rich and doting husband for herself.
informal expressing your love for someone in a way that other people think is silly: · It is possible to love someone without going all gooey over them.· We ended up sitting next to a lovey-dovey couple.
stories, films etc about love
a story about two people who are in love with each other: · The book is very exciting, as well as being a wonderful love story.· a well-known writer of popular romances
a romantic story or film is about people who are in love: · a romantic comedy in which Meg Ryan plays a single mother looking for love
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 real old-fashioned romantic love
 romantic notions about becoming a famous actress Like many New Yorkers, he had a romantic image of country life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=something romantic that is rather boring because many people do it)· Giving a girl red roses is a bit of a romantic cliché.
· 'Four weddings and a Funeral' is a well-known romantic comedy.
(=for two people in a romantic relationship)· Clive and Denise were enjoying a romantic dinner for two in a quiet French restaurant.
(=about a romance)· It is a wartime romantic drama.
 She was a hopeless romantic, always convinced that one day she would meet the man of her dreams.
· I gave up my romantic ideal of love at the age of nineteen.
· Romantic love was not always the reason for marriage.
(=one that is based on how you want something to be, not how it is in real life)· He rejected the romantic notion of rugby as a game for gentlemen.
 a newly published science fiction novel
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· It is not just a romantic attachment between two individuals to the exclusion of the world at large.· I know I should not allow one of my dearest friends to discover so late on of my romantic attachment ....· Again, I am not just talking about romantic attachments, but also about simple friendships.· And 46 percent of the under-25s said they didn't view marriage as their last romantic attachment.
· There will be fewer big action pictures and more romantic comedies.· This mutual stretching of personas is what works best in the new romantic comedy about a couple of blue-collar thieves.· It is neither a romantic comedy in the vein of Four Weddings nor a warm-hearted tale about Sheffield steel workers.· It is a romantic comedy, and I play a really bad person.· Once, coming back from New York, we were all watching a romantic comedy.· The problem seems to be that Cleese and co-writer Iain Johnstone have taken the featherweight demands of the romantic comedy to heart.· They want to make screwball romantic comedies but they wind up producing sitcoms that look lost without a laugh track.· This surprisingly funny, reverse-Cyrano lark is witty, wise and the most romantic comedy so far this year.
· The romantic fantasy world that she had entered when she left the train with Ludo was dissolving in the light of reality.· These somewhat steamy romances feature a variety of contemporary problems all solved within an atmosphere of romantic fantasy.· She told herself sternly that she must shake off this tendency towards romantic fantasy.
· In short, a romantic fiction of unashamed sentimentality.· The earlier feminist critics such as McRobbie and Garber argued that girls learned their roles partly through romantic fiction and girls' magazines.· I saw a picture of Jane Asher in the same suit at a romantic fiction judging evening.
· As well as admiring Modigliani's talent, Zborowski found him a romantic figure, living a life he would have liked to lead.· She was not exactly a romantic figure.· You were a romantic figure, come to restore our fortunes.
· Sir Anthony Hopkins says it's a privilege to play a romantic hero at 55.· Terry, after all, is no romantic hero.· Hornblower is not a romantic hero but a hero in spite of himself.
· His romantic idea that gangsters closer to reality than the rest of us.· And that romantic idea had to sustain me through the realities of actually working on the 128K Mac....· I got pregnant because you spent all my life filling my head with romantic ideas rather than giving me any practical advice.
· Nick Nolte plays the president-to-be, with Greta Scacchi as his romantic interest.· We meet in the Game, and we both know that we have other romantic interests there.
· In those days I don't think there was an average looking or homely looking person playing romantic leads.· Woody Allen has been a romantic lead.· He still looked like a romantic lead.· But he's singing like a romantic lead.
· The reason for this fall is the fact that romantic love can not be sustained without an underlying friendship.· There is also the fact that in our culture romantic love eludes both rational analysis and individual control.· To us the flood of romantic love should be searched for and found before marriage.· Then again, perhaps rough, tough Spacefleet troopers manifested peculiarly understated displays of romantic love.· In addition to romantic love, the major tie that is still operative between male and female is the project of reproduction.· To see them is to believe in love, real old-fashioned romantic love.· Kissing became the gesture of romantic love, and future actors took up the torch.
· But I'd had my suspicions and didn't share his romantic notion of a farewell from anonymous royalty.· Of course, it takes a lot more than a romantic notion to open and sustain a successful restaurant.· De Gaulle's romantic notions were balanced by a harsh realism.· It is a gut-level response, based on romantic notions about college sports.· His romantic notions of Oscar Wilde are fully acted out while he stays in this condition.· That romantic notion held sway over me, and probably delayed my perception of Clarisa as some one with a medical problem.· However, there is the problem of the romantic notion of pure art devoid of social responsibility.· Living conditions in the countryside had never approached the Arcadian well-being implied in romantic notions of sturdy peasants following the plough.
· Escapism isn't just limited to dipping into science fiction or a romantic novel.· As a life, it had the ingredients of a blockbuster romantic novel or epic costume film.· You've been reading too many romantic novels, she told herself.· It was under this imprint that the light romantic novels were issued which constituted the staple fare of Lane's circulating libraries.· Looking back now they might have been playing out the rôle of characters from some nineteenth-century romantic novel.· She loved to dress in expensive, eye-catching clothes and enjoyed reading romantic novels.· They are, however, rather more explicit in their demands of the romantic novel.
· The romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland has joined the battle to save an eleventh century abbey.· One of the guests was a rather fey romantic novelist.
· It was a habit he had that confirmed to Ruth that a romantic relationship with him could never be.· The panel consisted of four women, all of whom had had a romantic relationship as an undergraduate with a professor.
· As a postscript to my days in Port Said, perhaps I can tell one brief, romantic story.· Romance readers' advisory service is connecting the romance reader with the proper romantic story.· You can not sit back in your little room writing a nice romantic story about loving couples.· Her reasons for and the results of her actions form the plot of this romantic story.
· She rejects a purely romantic view of the relations of men and women.· As a raft of scientists have now informed me, the Rousseauian romantic view of allergies is way off.· Crossing the bridge, look back at the romantic view of the palaces backing on to the canal.· Although he was a native New Yorker, like many denizens of that city he had a romantic view of country life.· The new socialist criminology of the 1960s and 1970s, however, marked a return to the more romantic view.· Her upbringing had not encouraged a romantic view of life.
· But I doubt that such a romantic vision really matches the truth.· The romantic vision of things to come is constantly juxtaposed with the seedy realities of the police state.· This is not a romantic vision.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • One of the characteristics of Romantic literature is the interaction or rapport between man and nature.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounromanceromanticromanticismadjectiveromanticunromanticromanticizedverbromanceromanticizeadverbromantically
1showing love showing strong feelings of love:  ‘Tom always sends me red roses on my birthday.’ ‘How romantic!’2relating to love relating to feelings of love or a loving relationship:  After dinner, they took a romantic stroll by the sea. real old-fashioned romantic love I’m not ready for a romantic relationship.3story/film a romantic story or film is about love:  a romantic comedy4beautiful beautiful in a way that affects your emotions and makes you think of love or adventure:  romantic music The castle is set in one of England’s most romantic landscapes.5not practical romantic ideas are not practical or not based on reality OPP  realisticromantic notion/view/idea etc romantic notions about becoming a famous actress Like many New Yorkers, he had a romantic image of country life.6Romantic art/literature etc art or literature that is based on the ideas of romanticismromantically /-kli/ adverb
romantic1 adjectiveromantic2 noun
romanticromantic2 noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • I'm a romantic who likes picnics and candlelight dinners.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Against the sensuality of the romantic, Berlin offered the sobriety of the realist.
  • Jeanne Tripplehorn pairs with Dylan McDermott in this comedy about a ridiculous romantic and an utter realist brought together by destiny.
  • Struggling with this recalcitrant material, the director, an unreconstructed romantic, slapped on the atmosphere with a lavish hand.
  • Unlike many of his dancers, Horton was a romantic rather than an ideologue.
  • Whatever hurts he had suffered in the past, with his Leo open-heartedness, he was one of nature's true romantics.
word sets
WORD SETS
aesthete, nounagitprop, nounart gallery, nounartist, nounartwork, nounavant-garde, adjectivebaroque, adjectivecapture, verbceramics, nouncharacter, nounclassical, adjectiveclassicism, nouncompere, nouncontemporary, adjectiveconvention, nouncreative, adjectivecritical, adjectivecrossover, nouncubism, nouncultural, adjectiveculturally, adverbculture, nouncurator, nouncycle, noundrama, nouneisteddfod, nounepic, nouneponymous, adjectiveerotic, adjectiveerotica, nouneroticism, nounexhibit, verbexhibit, nounexhibition, nounexpress, verbexpression, nounexpressionism, nounextract, nounfictionalize, verbfigurine, nounfin de siècle, adjectiveflashback, nounformalism, nounfuturism, nounglaze, verbglaze, nounGothic, adjectivehandcrafted, adjectivehandicraft, nounhandmade, adjectivehigh priest, nounhistorical, adjectiveinterpretation, nounItalianate, adjectivelowbrow, adjectivemagnum opus, nounmarquetry, nounmasterpiece, nounmasterwork, nounmature, adjectivemedium, nounMFA, nounmiddlebrow, adjectiveminimalism, nounmotif, nounmuse, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounneoclassical, adjectivenotice, nounoeuvre, nounoffering, nounopening, adjectiveopus, nounpan, verbparody, nounpastiche, nounpattern, nounpiece, nounpop art, nounportfolio, nounpostmodernism, nounprequel, nounpreview, nounproduce, verbproduction, nounrealism, nounrealistic, adjectiverehash, verbreview, nounreview, verbromantic, nounromanticism, nounroyalty, nounrubbish, nounsalon, nounscenario, nounscene, nounsensuous, adjectivesentimental, adjectivesequel, nounsequence, nounset piece, nounsetting, nounShakespearean, adjectiveshowing, nounskit, nounstory, nounstudio, nounstylistic, adjectivesurrealism, nounswansong, nounsynopsis, nountitle, nountrilogy, nountwo-dimensional, adjectiveuncut, adjectiveunexpurgated, adjectivevillain, nounwork, nounwork of art, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=something romantic that is rather boring because many people do it)· Giving a girl red roses is a bit of a romantic cliché.
· 'Four weddings and a Funeral' is a well-known romantic comedy.
(=for two people in a romantic relationship)· Clive and Denise were enjoying a romantic dinner for two in a quiet French restaurant.
(=about a romance)· It is a wartime romantic drama.
 She was a hopeless romantic, always convinced that one day she would meet the man of her dreams.
· I gave up my romantic ideal of love at the age of nineteen.
· Romantic love was not always the reason for marriage.
(=one that is based on how you want something to be, not how it is in real life)· He rejected the romantic notion of rugby as a game for gentlemen.
 a newly published science fiction novel
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounromanceromanticromanticismadjectiveromanticunromanticromanticizedverbromanceromanticizeadverbromantically
1someone who shows strong feelings of love and likes doing things that are related to love such as buying flowers, presents etc2someone who is not practical, and bases their ideas too much on an imagined idea of the world OPP  realist:  a romantic who longed for adventure3 (also Romantic) a writer, painter etc whose work is based on romanticism
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