請(qǐng)看英國(guó)"Royal Opera House"(皇家歌劇院)的一則海報(bào): "What kind of love is this? Religious and pure? Rashful? … Morning brings an end to Romeo and Juliet's tryst on the balcony as well as their ideally envisioned love…" 聰明的讀者能猜得出海報(bào)在宣傳什么嗎?

是的，海報(bào)在宣傳莎翁那部有名的戲劇《羅米歐和朱麗葉》，而且，極大可能"皇家歌劇院"的重頭戲在"balcony scene"(陽(yáng)臺(tái)幽會(huì))那一幕。說(shuō)到這兒，海報(bào)中唯一一個(gè)較生僻的字 "tryst"恐怕也該迎刃而解了吧?

Tryst常用來(lái)指"情人的幽會(huì)"，如In modern China, the café is often considered a good place for a lover's tryst (現(xiàn)今在中國(guó)，咖啡屋通常被認(rèn)為是情人幽會(huì)的好地方)。另外，在花邊新聞中，記者也喜歡用"tryst"來(lái)披露明星們的"浪漫史"-- 為了躲避"狗仔隊(duì)"，名人們不得不to keep secret tryst with sb.(秘密約會(huì))。

Tryst 還有一個(gè)近意詞rendezvous。在前段有關(guān)"神州"的新聞報(bào)道里，rendezvous經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)，如：Inspired by China's second manned space mission, space officials unveiled a specific timetable for the second stage - conducting a space walk around the year 2007 and rendezvous docking in orbit by 2009-12. 不過(guò)，這里的rendezvous用的是它的另一個(gè)意思，指在空間軌道上實(shí)施飛行器的空間軌道"交會(huì)對(duì)接"。