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单词 tryst
释义
trysttryst /trɪst, traɪst/ noun [countable] literary Word Origin
WORD ORIGINtryst
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French triste ‘place from which someone watches’, probably from a Scandinavian language
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • secret hotel trysts
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • By July the Minister's secret trysts were laid bare.
  • My master was still asleep, as he had been the previous evening when I returned from my love tryst.
  • She could never get accustomed to motel trysts.
  • She ventured to go back to the tree of the tryst, the mulberry with the shining white fruit.
  • The letter invites Leonardo to a tryst in the grove where Terentia is to meet Lycander.
  • Tyrone fleeing from Maria's hotel tryst was equally unlikely.
  • Vernacular cosmopolitans are compelled to make a tryst with cultural translation as an act of survival.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
an occasion when people meet in order to discuss something: · a business meeting.· Mr Bell is in a meeting.· The committee will hold another meeting Wednesday.
an organized event, especially one that continues for several days, at which a lot of people meet to discuss a particular subject and hear speeches about it: · Didn’t you give a talk at the conference last year?· a conference of women business leaders
a large formal meeting of people who belong to a political party, or to an organization of people with the same interests: · the Democratic Party Convention· a convention for Star Trek fans
a large public meeting, especially one that is held outdoors to support or protest about something: · There was a massive peace rally in London.
a meeting between government leaders from important and powerful countries, to discuss important matters: · A summit meeting of OPEC leaders was called to find a solution to the oil crisis.· next week’s economic summit
American English a local meeting of the members of a political party to choose people to represent them at a larger meeting, or to choose a candidate in an election: · Obama won the Iowa caucus in 2007.
a business meeting in which people in different places talk to each other using telephones or video equipment: · The chairman held teleconferences with his senior managers.
a situation in which a group of people come together to meet, talk, and have drinks with each other, especially friends or family: · We held a small family get-together to celebrate her birthday.· She arranged social gatherings in Kettering for young people on Saturday evenings.
an arrangement to meet someone who you are having, or hoping to have, a romantic relationship with: · I think I might ask her out on a date.
a meeting where two people have arranged to meet at a particular time or place, often secretly: · She arranged a rendezvous with him in the hotel bar.
literary a secret meeting between people who are having a romantic relationship: · a good place for a moonlight tryst
a meeting between lovers in a secret place or at a secret time – often used humorously
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