| 单词 | romantic |
| 例句 | romantic adjective 1.•he's so romantic:loving, amorous, passionate, tender, affectionate | informal lovey-dovey. 2.•the book was a bit too romantic for my tastes:sentimental, mawkish, saccharine, syrupy | informal mushy, schmaltzy, gooey, treacly, cheesy, corny, sappy, soppy, cornball. ANT unsentimental, gritty. 3.•a romantic setting:idyllic, picturesque, fairy-tale | beautiful, lovely, charming, pretty. 4.•romantic notions of life in rural communities:idealistic, idealized, romanticized, unrealistic, fanciful, impractical | head-in-the-clouds, starry-eyed, optimistic, hopeful, visionary, utopian, fairy-tale. ANT practical, realistic.▶noun •an incurable romantic:idealist, sentimentalist, romanticist | dreamer, visionary, Utopian, Don Quixote, fantasist, fantasizer | archaic fantast. ANT realist.WORD NOTE romantic, romance Play Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of “Isn't it Romantic,” the Rodgers and Hart standard, and get in the mood. For what? For romance—the romance of the words romance and romantic. Romance is a subgenre of fiction, a type of comic book, the element of doo-wop rock and roll. But the romantic is also the province of medieval chivalry, opera and musical comedy, jazz, swing, slow dancing, and moonlight. The dance of the sexes rhymes with romance, and when Freud wants to convey that there are ambiguous erotic edges to the relationships we have with our fathers and mothers, our sisters and brothers, he uses the phrase “family romance.” Joseph Conrad speaks of the “romance of illusions,” which is almost a redundancy. Romance is sex without the dirt, Eros without disease and old age. Romance is poetry; marriage and its aftermath is prose (the novel). Romance is one half of the truth, of which death is the other. Who among poets would not want to be a romantic —or even better a Romantic —poet? No matter how well you know that Keats, Shelley, Byron, and Coleridge were Romantic poets in a whole other and more complicated sense, a part of you persists in seeing in the sickly and sensual Keats, the dashing Byron, the political maverick Shelley, and the opium-tripping Coleridge, a quality of heroism that seems hot with the passion of youth—the quality of romance. — DLConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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