| 单词 | romantic |
| 释义 | ro·man·tic I. 1. < my advance toward romantic composition — Sir Walter Scott > < romantic fiction > 2. < liked to make observations all his own and give his characteristic romantic report afterward — Glenway Wescott > < treachery to the peerage was a somewhat romantic way of describing his political goings-on — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < story of drugged kidnapping and clever fencing with the … interrogators was deemed altogether too romantic — Time > 3. < some romantic get-rich-quick scheme to attain a heaven-on-earth — M.R.Cohen > < now that the world has become more honest and less romantic — L.C.Powys > < was not romantic enough to assume you could reform society and get human institutions that would be perfect — Stringfellow Barr > 4. < collecting romantic articles of commerce — the pearl oyster, arrowroot, ambergris, sandalwood, coconut oil — Herman Melville > < a noble chase of great extent, beautifully wild and romantic, well stored with game of all sorts, and abounding with excellent timber — Tobias Smollett > < had become so romantic a figure that his appearance on the street of any border town started lurid tales of bloodshed and sudden death — Mari Sandoz > < reminiscing about his childhood, he almost invariably is drawn into a nostalgic mood where events and characters assume romantic proportions — Rose Feld > < makes a deep impression on the mind; far deeper than the less romantic, everyday thing which shows the real state of an island in the statistical sense — R.A.W.Hughes > 5. < most people are romantic at 20, owing to lack of experience — E.M.Forster > < was once young and passionate, romantic about the schemes which he realistically carried out — Carl Van Doren > < children are, and ought to be, romantic — C.H.Grandgent > 6. a. often capitalized < the modern romantic tradition, however, can be traced to one important literary source — Mabel Elliott & Francis Merrill > < the generating and generic element in the Romantic doctrine — A.O.Lovejoy > < characteristic of the Romantic period — W.H.Auden > < the romantic poets > — compare classical b. of art, literature, or music 7. a. < give the impression of having married for romantic love — James Jones > < her first romantic admiration of his lofty bearing — George Meredith > < the period of romantic love among the newly married — Lewis Mumford > b. < in popular speech, today, a romantic novel or film is one concerned … with sexual passion — Times Literary Supplement > 8. < played the romantic lead > Synonyms: see sentimental II. 1. < there you are with your romantics again — William Black > < love for the banker's daughter takes care of the romantics — Newsweek > 2. a. < is still essentially a romantic — capable of seeing the world as he wishes to see it — T.R.Fyvel > < by temperament and training the romantic who feels first and thinks afterwards — Edward Cushing > b. usually capitalized < the Romantics convert nature into a solace for the trials of civilization — Philip Rahv > < was characteristic of the Romantics to seek experience for its own sake — Edmund Wilson > |
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