请看英国"Royal Opera House"(皇家歌剧院)的一则海报: "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…" 聪明的读者能猜得出海报在宣传什么吗?
是的，海报在宣传莎翁那部有名的戏剧《罗米欧和朱丽叶》，而且，极大可能"皇家歌剧院"的重头戏在"balcony scene"(阳台幽会)那一幕。说到这儿，海报中唯一一个较生僻的字 "tryst"恐怕也该迎刃而解了吧?
Tryst常用来指"情人的幽会"，如In modern China, the café is often considered a good place for a lover's tryst (现今在中国，咖啡屋通常被认为是情人幽会的好地方)。另外，在花边新闻中，记者也喜欢用"tryst"来披露明星们的"浪漫史"-- 为了躲避"狗仔队"，名人们不得不to keep secret tryst with sb.(秘密约会)。
Tryst 还有一个近意词rendezvous。在前段有关"神州"的新闻报道里，rendezvous经常出现，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. 不过，这里的rendezvous用的是它的另一个意思，指在空间轨道上实施飞行器的空间轨道"交会对接"。
