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词汇 tryst
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Definition of tryst in English:

tryst

noun trɪsttrɪst
literary
  • A private romantic rendezvous between lovers.

    (情人的)约会,幽会

    a moonlight tryst

    月下幽会。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Poet's Bridge evokes thoughts of romantic trysts, languid lovers and passionate verses.
    • Her father discovers the tryst and immediately arranges to send Claire home.
    • Amberley Castle is surrounded by Sussex countryside, has an 18-hole golf course, tennis courts and beautiful courtyard gardens, including a rose arbour for romantic trysts.
    • And as usual, they have a couple of dates and run off for a romantic tryst somewhere.
    • Their trysts were varied, romantic and playful, serious and passionate.
    Synonyms
    meeting, engagement, interview, arrangement, consultation, session
verb trɪsttrɪst
[no object]literary
  • Keep a private, romantic rendezvous with a lover.

    (情人的)约会,幽会

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If we were leaving to find a spot to tryst, wouldn't they expect us to do it with a little more discretion?
    • Making love was supposed to bring fertility to the crops, and the yam and sweet potato gardens were popular trysting sites - as was the cave to which they took me.
    • The two then ended up traveling and trysting together through several states.
    • They were then trysting places of choice for teenagers.
    • Together they dove for shellfish and together, shucked the meat from the shells in their trysting spot, and within a year, the empty shells formed an underwater mound in which creatures of the sea found shelter.

Derivatives

  • tryster

  • noun
    literary
    • The two timid trysters head off to the seashore to find an appropriate way to express their unspoken love.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The same hour the next evening found him again at the same place; but Eustacia and Wildeve, the expected trysters, did not appear.
      • But if palimony were at issue, neither of the trysters could have collected, at least not in New Jersey.
      • In the town, there was considerable sentiment for lighting the town cemetery - to make it less attractive to teen-age trysters.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally Scots): variant of obsolete trist 'an appointed place in hunting', from French triste or medieval Latin trista.

Rhymes

assist, cist, coexist, consist, cyst, desist, enlist, exist, gist, grist, hist, insist, list, Liszt, mist, persist, resist, schist, subsist, twist, whist, wist, wrist

Definition of tryst in US English:

tryst

nountrɪsttrist
literary
  • A private romantic rendezvous between lovers.

    (情人的)约会,幽会

    a moonlight tryst

    月下幽会。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Their trysts were varied, romantic and playful, serious and passionate.
    • The Poet's Bridge evokes thoughts of romantic trysts, languid lovers and passionate verses.
    • Amberley Castle is surrounded by Sussex countryside, has an 18-hole golf course, tennis courts and beautiful courtyard gardens, including a rose arbour for romantic trysts.
    • Her father discovers the tryst and immediately arranges to send Claire home.
    • And as usual, they have a couple of dates and run off for a romantic tryst somewhere.
    Synonyms
    meeting, engagement, interview, arrangement, consultation, session
verbtrɪsttrist
[no object]literary
  • Keep a private, romantic rendezvous.

    (情人的)约会,幽会

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They were then trysting places of choice for teenagers.
    • Making love was supposed to bring fertility to the crops, and the yam and sweet potato gardens were popular trysting sites - as was the cave to which they took me.
    • The two then ended up traveling and trysting together through several states.
    • Together they dove for shellfish and together, shucked the meat from the shells in their trysting spot, and within a year, the empty shells formed an underwater mound in which creatures of the sea found shelter.
    • If we were leaving to find a spot to tryst, wouldn't they expect us to do it with a little more discretion?

Origin

Late Middle English (originally Scots): variant of obsolete trist ‘an appointed place in hunting’, from French triste or medieval Latin trista.

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