- 1幽會、密會（情人間的私下約會）
A tryst is a secret meeting between two people who are in love — arranged in advance, at a hidden place or a quiet hour. The whole point of the word is the secrecy and the romance. It is an old, literary word. You find it in poems, novels, and history writing: lovers met for a midnight tryst in the garden. In modern everyday English, people use it in a joking way — someone says they had a tryst with a colleague and everyone smiles, because the word is far grander than real life. Newspapers use it about affairs, often with a raised . It can also be stretched to any secret meeting that is not romantic at all: a tryst with a bag of crisps at midnight. It has a verb form too — lovers tryst — but that is rare and sounds very old. If you actually want to say two people met, use meet. Save tryst for when you want the old, romantic, slightly theatrical colour.
組成From Middle English tryst, from Old French triste, which meant a waiting place — the spot where a hunter was told to stand and wait. It probably came from Old Norse traust, meaning safety or shelter: a safe place to wait for someone.
同家族的字
- trustsame root — both go back to the idea of something safe and firm that you can rely on
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
trystnoun/tɹɪst/
- 1
A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
- And Vivien, like the tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile, / Made answer, either eyelid wet with tears: […]
- A silence supreme and altogether European. Shutters drawn, shops barred. A red glow here and there to mark a tryst.
- 2
obsoleteA mutual agreement, a covenant.
- 3
historicalA market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place.
trystverb/tɹɪst/
- 1
To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
- 2
To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
- 3
To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
- He said he was jealous, and craved something to ease his care. 'It's but a small thing I ask,' says he, 'but it will make me a happy man, and nothing ever shall come atween us. Tryst wi' me for Beltane's E'en on the Sker sands, at the green link o' the burn where the sands begin, on the ebb o' the tide when midnight is by, but afore cockcrow. For,' said he, 'that was our forbears' tryst for true lovers, and wherefore no for you and me?'
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。