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A dalliance is a romance or a sexual relationship that is not meant to be serious or lasting — a , a bit of playing around. You will meet it in novels and in newspaper writing about affairs; you will almost never hear a young person say it in ordinary talk. It can sound polite, or even a little , which is why writers sometimes choose it instead of the colder word affair. Though actually the word is older than that love-meaning: it once also meant idle chat and wasting time, and that flavour is still there — you are not getting on with serious life.
露水情緣、逢場作戲的戀情
組成From dally (to flirt, to linger and not get on with work) + -ance, from Old French dalier.
同家族的字
- dallyto linger, play, or flirt instead of being serious — the verb behind dalliance
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dalliancenoun/ˈdælɪəns/
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Playful flirtation; amorous play.
- As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),
- “Mark,” said Gabriel, sternly, “now you mind this: none of that dalliance-talk—that philandering way—that dandle-smack-and-coddle style of yours—about Miss Everdene. I don’t allow it. Do you hear?”
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An episode of dabbling.
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A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
- He had passed the officer now. There was no necessity for dalliance. He pressed the accelerator down a trifle.
- Emerging, satiated, from the theatre, a public timepiece before a jeweller's shop confronted him with an unexpected dial and imminent perplexities. How was he to explain at home these hours of dalliance?
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A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。