Tina: Today Kitty, we're talking about romance and the expression whirlwind romance.

Kitty: Whirlwind romance 會是什么意思呢？哎， Tina, whirlwind 不是旋風(fēng)的意思嗎？
Tina: That's right Kitty. A whirlwind is a strong swirling wind that is very quick and often unexpected; so a whirlwind romance is a romance that happens very quickly and quite unexpectedly.

Kitty: 這么說， a whirlwind romance 就是那種突然，快速的戀愛，換句話說，就是閃電式的羅曼提克。

Tina: So you get some couples who meet and perhaps within a few months they get married; that would be a whirlwind romance.

Kitty: 如果一對夫婦在認(rèn)識不多久就結(jié)婚了，那么你就可以使用這個短語 a whirlwind romance 閃電式結(jié)婚。

Tina: Let's listen to another example.

Examples

A: Is Claire still going out with Peter?
B: Oh no, they split up about a month ago. They were together about two months, were madly in love, and then it all went wrong.
A: Oh, a bit of a whirlwind romance then eh?