1. to ask someone out 

- to ask someone to go on a date

邀请某人约会

2. to date 

- to see someone repeatedly in a romantic sense

在恋爱关系中与某人频繁见面；交往

3. to fall in love 

- to find someone that you love

找到你爱的人

4. to go out 

- to date once, to go out repeatedly (often used in the present perfect continuous form)

一次性的约会，或频繁地见面（常用于现在完成进行时）

5. to court 

- to try to date someone (older English, not often used in modern, everyday English)

试图与某人约会（老式英语，现代日常英语中不常用）

6. to go steady 

- to date regularly over a long period of time

在一个较长的时期内定期约会，确定关系

7. to have a boyfriend / girlfriend 

- to have a continuing relationship with one person

与某人建立持续的联系

8. to arrange a marriage 

- to find marriage partners for other people

帮别人寻找婚姻伴侣

9. to woo someone 

- to try to go out or date someone

试图与某人约会

10. speed dating 

- modern technique to find someone to date, people speak to each other quickly one after the other in order to find someone to date

闪电约会——现代约会的一种技巧，人们一个个与他人快速交谈，来寻找对象。

11. online dating 

- sites that help arrange relationships by meeting possible romantic partners online

网上交友——通过在网上与有发展可能的对象见面，从而帮助人们相亲的网站。

12. courtship 

- period of time during which a man tries to convince a woman to marry him (not generally used in modern English, but common in English literate)

求爱期——男士试图说服女士嫁给他的时期（在现代英语中不常用，但英语文学作品中很常见）

13. relationship 

- when two people have a committed attachment to each other

交往期——两个人相互承认关系

1. to get married 

- the action of becoming husband and wife