1. budding romance 剛剛開始的戀情

例句："Some budding romance?" I asked, "did you know who they were?"
“初戀羅曼史？”我問道，“你知道他們是誰嗎？”

2. be involved in 卷入，涉及

例句：We were very much in love, but he was going away, and could not tell me what he was involved in the army.
我們深深相愛，但他卻要離開了，而且不知道他將在軍隊里干什么。

3.get married 結婚

例句："'I had hoped that you and Robin would one day get married,' she said, He was my only child, and I would have loved to be a Granny, they would have been such lovely babies' - she was like that!
我本來希望你和羅賓會結婚的。’她母親說，‘我只有他一個孩子，我本希望能做祖母，有非常可愛的小寶寶。’——她真是那么說的！

4.not a patch on 比不上

例句："There were others, of course, but not a patch on my Robin!" she said strongly. "
“當然， 那時還有其他人，但他們連羅賓的一絲一毫都比不上！”她肯定地說。